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Sustainable agriculture. Volume 2 by Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke, Agnès Henri (auth.), Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sustainable agriculture. Volume 2 about?

Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation costs, flaws of the global market, worldwide pesticide pollution, pest adaptation and resistance, loss of soil fertility and organic carbon, soil erosion, decreasing biodiversity, desertification, and so on. Despite unprecedented advances in sciences allowing to visit planets and disclose subatomic particles, serious terrestrial issues about food show clearly that conventional agriculture is not suited any longer to feed humans and to preserve ecosystems. Sustainable agriculture is an alternative for solving fundamental and applied issues related to food production in an ecological way. While conventional agriculture is driven almost solely by productivity and profit, sustainable agriculture integrates biological, chemical, physical, ecological, economic and social sciences in a comprehensive way to develop new farming practices that are safe and do not degrade our environment. In th

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Author

Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke, Agnès Henri (auth.), Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282458949

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Business