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Cover: 9780803275621 | New Roots for Agriculture | Wes Jackson | Taschenbuch | Englisch
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New Roots for Agriculture
Taschenbuch von Wes Jackson
Sprache: Englisch

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"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 plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and re-newing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil-fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. His new way of raising crops, by working with the soil's natural systems, would keep the world's bread-basket producing perpetually.
"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 plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and re-newing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil-fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. His new way of raising crops, by working with the soil's natural systems, would keep the world's bread-basket producing perpetually.
Über den Autor
Wes Jackson and his wife, Dana, are directors of the Land Institute, a research and educational organization near Salina, Kansas, where they are currently breeding seed-producing perennials that could revolutionize world and American agriculture within fifty years.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1980
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 151
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780803275621
ISBN-10: 0803275625
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jackson, Wes
Hersteller: Nebraska
Maße: 228 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Wes Jackson
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1980
Gewicht: 0,231 kg
preigu-id: 107353251
Über den Autor
Wes Jackson and his wife, Dana, are directors of the Land Institute, a research and educational organization near Salina, Kansas, where they are currently breeding seed-producing perennials that could revolutionize world and American agriculture within fifty years.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1980
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 151
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780803275621
ISBN-10: 0803275625
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jackson, Wes
Hersteller: Nebraska
Maße: 228 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Wes Jackson
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1980
Gewicht: 0,231 kg
preigu-id: 107353251
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