New Roots for Agriculture
The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword, writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is the failure of success. As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy. Jackson's major solution calls for the development of pl…
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Weitere Autoren: Berry, Wendell (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7562-1
- EAN: 9780803275621
- Produktnummer: 20688577
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1980
- Seitenangabe: 151 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 231 g
- Gewicht: 231
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