Next Green Revolution : Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture

Name: Next Green Revolution : Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture
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ISBN: 9780585484747

ISBN-10: 0585484740

ISBN-13: 9780585484747

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Authors: James E. Horne, Maura McDermott

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The authors define sustainable agriculture as "the umbrella term for approaches to agriculture that are environmentally friendly, profitable, and fair to farmers and ranchers." One of Horne's positive solutions to agribusiness-as-usual is to pay farmers to implement sustainable practice, rather than pay them later to clean up pollution or compensate for overproduction. Horne's eight goals of sustainability are healthy soil, increasing water conservation and quality, managing organic waste without pollution, safer pest management, adopting livestock and crops more adapted to nature, increased biodiversity, energy conservation, increased profitability, and reduced risk. Horne hopes to convert…

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List price: $69.95
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xvii
On Trial: Industrial Agriculture	p. 1
Indictment I	p. 7
Indictment II	p. 18
Indictment III	p. 22
The Solution	p. 32
The Remedy: Sustainable Agriculture	p. 33
Nature versus Industry	p. 38
The Sustainable Era	p. 48
What Is Sustainable?	p. 55
Down to Earth: Eight Steps to the Next Green Revolution	p. 62
Down to Earth: Step 1--Create and Conserve Healthy Soil	p. 67
Not Just Dirt	p. 68
The Good Earth	p. 76
Healing the Soil	p. 84
Clear, Clean Water: Step 2--Conserve Water and Protect Its Quality and Step 3--Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution	p. 95
Washing the Water	p. 103
Don't Drink Up the Pond	p. 109
Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution	p. 114
Don't Waste the Waste	p. 122
Think Local: Step 4--Select Plants and Animals Adapted to the Environment	p. 133
Agroecology	p. 135
Battling the Hill	p. 139
The Right Cow for the Right Grass	p. 143
Think Local	p. 149
All Creatures Great and Small: Step 5--Encourage Biodiversity	p. 155
Stewards of Life	p. 160
Endangered at Home	p. 165
Terminator Tech	p. 172
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Step 6--Manage Pests with Minimal Environmental Impact	p. 177
From Conception Until Death	p. 179
The Killing Fields	p. 182
The Chemical Treadmill	p. 189
It's Nature's Way	p. 192
The Team Approach	p. 196
Interactions	p. 201
Power: Step 7--Conserve Nonrenewable Energy Resources	p. 211
Agriculture's Achilles' Heel	p. 214
Low-Input Farming	p. 218
Money: Step 8--Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk	p. 229
A Penny Saved	p. 235
A Penny Earned	p. 240
Ecological Economics	p. 245
Two Roads	p. 251
Attachment to the Local Community and Care for the Surrounding Land	p. 255
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 299
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