Environmental sustainability performance of conventional, organic and permaculture farms

Authors

  • Alfréd Szilágyi Magyar Permakultúra Egyesület, Nagyszékely, Ady Endre utca 66., Hungary, H-7085
  • László Podmaniczky Szent István University, Institute of Nature Conservation and Environmental Management, Gödöllő, Páter Károly Street 1, Hungary, H-2103
  • Dóra Mészáros FiBL Europe, Rue de la Presse 4, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56617/tl.3582

Keywords:

sustainable agriculture, environmental sustainability, permaculture, SAFA, SMART

Abstract

There are several publications about the sustainability of conventional and organic farming systems, but perma- culture has not yet been scientifically studied in this sense. Our research studied the environmental sustainability of these three farming systems, involving 10 farms per each type. For the assessment of the environmental sus- tainability performance we used the SMART Farm-tool, developed by the Swiss FiBL based on the framework outlined by the SAFA guidelines developed by the FAO. The results show that permaculture farms scored better than conventional ones in all themes, and they even performed better in most cases than organic farms. However, in the evaluation of the results the small number of studied farms and the weaknesses of the methodology should be taken into consideration.

Author Biography

  • Alfréd Szilágyi, Magyar Permakultúra Egyesület, Nagyszékely, Ady Endre utca 66., Hungary, H-7085

    corresponding author
    szilagyialfred@gmail.com

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Environmental sustainability performance of conventional, organic and permaculture farms. (2018). JOURNAL OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | TÁJÖKOLÓGIAI LAPOK , 16(2), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.56617/tl.3582

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