Alternative Farming Systems and Their Benefits

Description

Sustainable agriculture is a quickly rising field aiming at producing food and energy in a bearable approach for our children. This discipline discourses recent issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. New solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As real society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to shape a safer world. This book examines current agricultural issues, and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.