New Roots for Agriculture (Farming and Ranching) - Softcover

Jackson, Wes

 
9780803275621: New Roots for Agriculture (Farming and Ranching)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803275625 ISBN 13: 9780803275621
Verlag: UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

"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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. 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.

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Verlag
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum
1985
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803275625
ISBN 13 
9780803275621
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
151
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