Table 1 Guiding principles of an Integral Health Farm system
From: Integral health farming
• Multi-purpose adaptive foraging and browsing for environmental, animal, human and societal health |
• Hedonics and eudemonics for positive animal emotions |
• Phased replacement of synthetic inputs by self-sustaining, synergetic ecosystem services |
• PharmEcology: preventing rather than remediating disease |
• Animals treated as sentient beings rather than machines |
• System digitalisation |
• Reverse sensitivity |
• Mitigation and supporting community engagement for greater agricultural literacy |