Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century (National Research Council).

Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century (National Research Council).

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In the last 20 years, there has been a remarkable emergence of innovations and technological advances that are generating promising changes and opportunities for sustainable agriculture, yet at the same time the agricultural sector worldwide faces numerous daunting challenges. Not only is the agricultural sector expected to produce adequate food, fiber, and feed, and contribute to biofuels to meet the needs of a rising global population, it is expected to do so under increasingly scarce natural resources and climate change. Growing awareness of the unintended impacts associated with some agricultural production practices has led to heightened societal expectations for improved environmental, community, labor, and animal welfare standards in agriculture. Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century assesses the scientific evidence for the strengths and weaknesses of different production, marketing, and policy approaches for improving and reducing the costs and unintended consequences of agricultural production. It discusses the principles underlying farming systems and practices that could improve the sustainability. It also explores how those lessons learned could be applied to agriculture in different regional and international settings, with an emphas.
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ФИО Автора
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Committee on Twenty
Division on Earth and Life Studies
First Century Systems Agriculture
National Research Council
Язык
Английский
ISBN
9780309148962
Дата выхода
2010

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