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: 9781560228868

ISBN-10: 1560228865

ISBN-13: 9781560228868

Edition: 2001

Authors: Raymond P. Poincelot, Jim 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…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 8/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



On Trial: Industrial Agriculture


Indictment I


Indictment II


Indictment III


The Solution



The Remedy: Sustainable Agriculture


Nature versus Industry


The Sustainable Era


What Is Sustainable?


Down to Earth: Eight Steps to the Next Green Revolution



Down to Earth: Step 1--Create and Conserve Healthy Soil


Not Just Dirt


The Good Earth


Healing the Soil



Clear, Clean Water: Step 2--Conserve Water and Protect Its Quality and Step 3--Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution


Washing the Water


Don't Drink Up the Pond


Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution


Don't Waste the Waste



Think Local: Step 4--Select Plants and Animals Adapted to the Environment


Agroecology


Battling the Hill


The Right Cow for the Right Grass


Think Local



All Creatures Great and Small: Step 5--Encourage Biodiversity


Stewards of Life


Endangered at Home


Terminator Tech



The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Step 6--Manage Pests with Minimal Environmental Impact


From Conception Until Death


The Killing Fields


The Chemical Treadmill


It's Nature's Way


The Team Approach


Interactions



Power: Step 7--Conserve Nonrenewable Energy Resources


Agriculture's Achilles' Heel


Low-Input Farming



Money: Step 8--Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk


A Penny Saved


A Penny Earned


Ecological Economics



Two Roads


Attachment to the Local Community and Care for the Surrounding Land


Notes


Bibliography


Index