Raymond P Poincelot, Jim Horne, Maura Mcdermott

The Next Green Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. This essential volume presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural system and an introduction to an alternative system w

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040288894
• Artikelnr.: 72279007

Autorenporträt

Raymond P Poincelot, Jim Horne, Maura Mcdermott

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. On Trial: Industrial Agriculture
Indictment I
Indictment II
Indictment III
The Solution
Chapter 2. The Remedy: Sustainable Agriculture
Nature versus Industry
The Sustainable Era
What Is Sustainable?
Down to Earth: Eight Steps to the Next Green Revolution
Chapter 3. Down to Earth: Step 1Create and Conserve Healthy Soil
Not Just Dirt
The Good Earth
Healing the Soil
Chapter 4. Clear
Clean Water: Step 2Conserve Water and Protect Its Quality and Step 3Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution
Washing the Water
Don't Drink Up the Pond
Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution
Don't Waste the Waste
Chapter 5. Think Local: Step 4Select Plants and Animals Adapted to the Environment
Agroecology
Battling the Hill
The Right Cow for the Right Grass
Think Local
Chapter 6. All Creatures Great and Small: Step 5Encourage Biodiversity
Stewards of Life
Endangered at Home
Terminator Tech
Chapter 7. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Step 6Manage Pests with Minimal Environmental Impact
From Conception Until Death
The Killing Fields
The Chemical Treadmill
It's Nature's Way
The Team Approach
Interactions
Chapter 8. Power: Step 7Conserve Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Agriculture's Achilles' Heel
Low-Input Farming
Chapter 9. Money: Step 8Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk
A Penny Saved
A Penny Earned
Ecological Economics
Chapter 10. Two Roads
Attachment to the Local Community and Care for the Surrounding Land
Notes
Bibliography
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