Journals / Toplum ve Hekim / 2019 / Cilt: 34 - Sayı: 5

What is Ecological Farming? What Should it be? Does it Feed Turkey?

EKOLOJİK TARIM: NEDİR? NE OLMALIDIR? TÜRKİYE’Yİ BESLER Mİ?

Pages
369–373
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

These debates are summarized in the beginning of our article which continues to describe the mathematical model and results showing that 63% of arable land in Turkey suffices to feed the whole population solely with organic foods.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:Organic farming, with “what it is” and “what it should be” being still debatable questions, is a farm management technique with its fanatics, enemies, sensible supporters, believers and skeptics.
📊
Key Findings & Data:It is here since the 1920s.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:These debates are summarized in the beginning of our article which continues to describe the mathematical model and results showing that 63% of arable land in Turkey suffices to feed the whole population solely with organic foods.
🔬Design:Modeling & Simulation
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Domain Parameters

Abstract

Organic farming, with “what it is” and “what it should be” being still debatable questions, is a farm management technique with its fanatics, enemies, sensible supporters, believers and skeptics. It is here since the 1920s. It is a regulated farming practice and this feature separates it from all other alternative farming movements. In essence, it has been formulated to avoid the harm done by conventional agriculture to all living creatures and life itself and to produce healthy food. Immediately, these goals have been joined by those aspiring to social justice and a good life for all parties involved. It’s commercialized but there still exist those who perform it with an amateur spirit in compliance with its principles even with those that have not found their way into laws and regulations. These debates are summarized in the beginning of our article which continues to describe the mathematical model and results showing that 63% of arable land in Turkey suffices to feed the whole population solely with organic foods. Finally, we discuss whether it is possible at all to follow a healthy diet as we face an ecological crisis brought on by an insatiable greed for profit and an obsession for growth.

Özet

Ekolojik tarım. Ne olduğu, ne olması gerektiği hâlâ tartışılan bir tarım pratiği. Fanatikleri var, düşmanları var, makul destekçileri, inananları, şüpheci yaklaşanları var. 1920’lerden bu yana var. Mevzuatı var. Bu yönüyle diğer alternatif tarım yöntemlerinden ayrışmış. Özünde, konvansiyonel tarımın doğal hayata verdiği zarardan kaçınmak ve sağlıklı gıda üretmek için formüle edilmiş, bu hedeflere herkes için iyi bir yaşam, sosyal adalet gibileri hemen eşlik etmiş.Ticarileşmiş, buna rağmen hâlâ mevzuata dahi girmemiş ilkelerine sıkı sıkı bağlı olarak amatör bir ruhla yapanları da var. Yazımız, bu tartışmaların bir özetiyle başlıyor. Devamında, Türkiye’nin tüm nüfusunu sadece organik ürünlerle beslemek için ülkenin ekilebilir alanlarının %63’ünün yeterli olduğunu gösterdiğimiz matematiksel modeli ve sonuçlarını anlatıyoruz. Son olarak,kâr hırsının ve aşırı büyüme tutkusunun sebep olduğu çevre krizinin varlığında sağlıklı beslenmek gerçekten mümkün olabilir mi sorusunu ele alıyoruz.

🔖

Cite This Article

DEMİR, Y. (2019). What is Ecological Farming? What Should it be? Does it Feed Turkey?. Toplum ve Hekim, Cilt: 34 - Sayı: 5, 369–373. https://ajindex.com/articles/367623

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (7)

  1. Aslan, B., Demir, A.Y. (2018) Organic Farming Suffices to Feed a Country: a Large-Scale Linear Programming Model to Develop an Organic Agriculture Plan for Turkey, Sustainable Agriculture Research, 7(1), 118-136.
  2. Bingöl, M.Ü., Geven, F., Güney, K., Ketenoğlu, O. Erdoğan, N. (2010) Egzoz Gazlarının Bitkilere Etkileri ve Koruma Öneri- leri, Biyoloji Bilimleri Araştırma Dergisi, 3(2), 63-67.
  3. Demirci, Y.E. (2019) Ziraat Yüksek Mühendisi, kişisel görüşme. Dogan, M. (2013) Determining the Heavy Metal Concentrati- ons in Plants Exposed to Exhaust Gases Alongside the Sanliurfa Highway, Ekoloji 22(89), 40-48. doi: 10.5053/ekoloji.2013.895. Duesing, W. (1995) Is organic enough?, The Natural Farmer, 2 (27) (Northeast Organic Farming Association Interstate, Con- necticut). Ikerd, J. (1997) Toward an Economics of Sustainability, Dept of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri. http://www.ssu. missouri.edu/faculty/JIkerd/papers/econ-sus.htm. Lampkin, N. (1994) Organic farming: sustainable agriculture in practice, In: Lampkin, N., Padel, S. (Eds.), The Economics of Organic Farming. An International Perspective. CABI, Oxford. Lotter, D.W., Seidel, R., Liebhardt, W. (2003) The performan- ce of organic and conventional cropping systems in an extreme climate year, American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 18, 146-154. https://doi.org/10.1079/ AJAA200345. Muller, A., Schader, C., El-Hage Scialabba, N., Hecht, J., Isen- see, A., Erb, K.-H., … Niggli, U. ve ark. (2017) Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture, Na- ture Communications, 8(1290), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41467-017-01410-w. Okçu, M., Tozlu, E., Kumlay, A.M., Pehluvan, M. (2009) Ağır Metallerin Bitkiler Üzerine Etkileri, Alınteri, 17(B), 14-26.
  4. Reganold, J.P., Wachter, J.M. (2016) Organic agriculture in the twenty-first century, Nature Plants, 2, 1-8. https://doi. org/10.1038/nplants.2015.221 Rehber, E., Turhan, Ş., Vural, H. (2018) Organic Farming: A Historical Perspective, Journal of Biological and Environmental Sciences, 12(36), 113-122.
  5. Rigby, D., Caceres, D. (2001) Organic Farming and the Sustai- nability of Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Systems, 68, 21-40.
  6. Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A. (2012) Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture, Nature, 485, 229- 232. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11069.
  7. Seven, T., Can, B., Darende, B.N., Ocak, S. (2018) Hava ve Toprakta Ağır Metal Kirliliği, Ulusal Çevre Bilimleri Araştırma Dergisi, Sa