Values and value conflicts in organic farming - Images and symbolic ideas as starting point for strategic planning in advisory and research work

Values and value conflicts play an important role in organic but also in non-organic farming. In discussions about the future way to go unconscious systems in human behaviour should be taken into account. Pictures, images and symbols are commonly used in marketing but are not really explored as a source for ethical orientation and strategic planning for farmers, advisors and researchers. Experiences with the use pictures and images in discussions with farmers and researchers and in advisory work (example of Bioland) about desirable sustainable futures will be reported. A further developed methodology and systematic, how to use pictures/images, is proposed

Probleme der Unkrautbekämpfung im ökologischen Gartenbau aus der Sicht der Praxis

Die mechanische und thermische Unkrautregulierung stellt viele Bio-Betriebe vor große Probleme. Die Anforderungen an das Know-how des/der Betriebsleiters/in sind sehr hoch. Es mangelt nach Ansicht des Autors aus Sicht der Praxis nicht nur an neuen technischen Lösungen, sondern vielmehr an Hilfestellungen im Bereich des gesamtbetrieblichen Unkrautmanagement und der Umsetzung. Hier ist eine engere Zusammenarbeit von Betrieben, Beratern und der Forschung sehr wünschenswert

an empirical re-examination of partisan policy views

This paper empirically evaluates partisan policy influences on state-level general fund revenue changes in all 50 American states for the period 1988 to 2004. Contrary to the earlier literature on partisan tax policy in the U.S., I find no substantially meaning- ful evidence to back up the claim of a systematic difference in general fund revenue changes depending upon state governors' party affiliation.draft version of July 19, 200

Tin Must S-t-r-e-t-c-h

Shelves of canned foods in the 1942 home will take on a different appearance from previous years. Not only will they be unusually well supplied with produce from home gardens but the canned foods from the grocer will show a transition from tin cans to glass jars, or from tin containers to paper bags or boxes. Sizes of cans, too, are changed; most canning is now being done in large can sizes, so the consumer will be making adjustments in her buying and menu-planning habits