The impact of organic farming on biodiversity
Abstract
Similarly to other European countries, organic farming has become an ever more adopted farming system in Hungary, the summarized area of organic farmlands reached 113.816 hectare in 2003 by the estimation of Biokontroll Kht. However, scientific examinations of different agricultural managements and their impact on biodiversity revealed many methodical problems that still lack of widely admitted solutions, in turn, correctly carried out studies may have an important role in assuring the decent scientific background of the declared agri-environmental schemes. The aim of this study is to review the possible function of organic farming in biodiversity conservation by national and international literature and examine what kind of considerations have to be reckoned with in the scientific researches.
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