| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Agroecology theory, controversy and governance -- Food and energy production from biomass in an integrated farming system -- Ecological intensification for crop protection -- Livestock farming systems and agro ecology in the tropics -- Cropping systems for soil biodiversity and ecosystem services; Cathy Clermont-Dauphin -- Agro ecology and grassland intensification and in the Caribbean -- Ecosystem services of multi specific and multi stratified cropping systems -- Agro ecological engineering to bio control soil pests for crop health -- Agro ecological resources for sustainable livestock farming in the humid tropics -- Agro ecology for farmers: the linguistic issue -- Soil quality and plant nutrition -- Soil science, plant nutrition and micro-farms |
| Summary |
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children |
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Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion |
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Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences |
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Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries |
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For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues |
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In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science |
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Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources |
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Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world |
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This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions |
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It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations |
| Analysis |
agroecology |
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duurzame landbouw |
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sustainable agriculture |
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Alternative Farming |
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Alternatieve Landbouw |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sustainable agriculture.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Sustainable agriculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ozier-Lafontaine, Harry, editor
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Lesueur-Jannoyer, Magalie, editor
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| ISBN |
9783319060163 |
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3319060163 |
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