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URBAN AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY VALUES IBD

LISA NEWTON
SPRINGER
03 / 2020
9783030392420
Inglés

Sinopsis

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the âÇÖcommunity economyâÇÖ that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice,áagriculture isá(in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world) unsustainable and destructive.áThe most immediately unsustainable feature of industrial agriculture is its dependence on the products of petroleum-as feedstock for fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and as fuel for the farm machinery and transport of agricultural products into the cities.áThe problems of agriculture and in general the food systems to which it is attached range from the vulnerability of monocultures to new and stronger pests to the emerging medical problem of obesity. The need for agricultural reform is widely acknowledged, one part of the new work being done suggests that food production in the cities may solve several of its problems at once.áThis book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students in agriculture and environmental studies.