Organic Farming and Environmental Conservation ─Strategies for Truly Sustainable Agriculture Practices from Specially-cultivated Practice─

Abstract

The area of organic farming and their market are incredibly increasing in recent decades, however, there are various ways of organic farming practices. As increasing the interest in organic farming, the discussions regarding how organic farming can contribute to develop a sustainable agriculture are widen. International Foundation of Organic Agriculture Movement also starts the discussion towards the new faces of organic farming that called Organic 3.0. This paper discussed the relationship between organic farming and environmental conservation in the both of global and regional viewpoints. To develop the climate smart agriculture that intend to mitigate climate changes through the farming practices, no tillage and cover crop adoptions will be effective way to develop the new organic farming system. Nature farming that is managed by no-tillage with weed cover mulch will be also attractive way as climate smart agriculture. It will be also needed to reevaluate the traditional Japanese farming practices such as Bocashi and Kun-tan biocha as the view point of mitigation of climate changes.