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

by Poincelot; Raymond P

• ISBN13: 9781560228868
• ISBN10: 1560228865
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-08-16
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. This essential volume presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural system and an introduction to an alternative system which gives more consideration to future generations. The Next Green Revolution is a well-researched introduction to the field, written with a minimum of jargon.To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
John E. Ikerd
Preface	xvii
On Trial: Industrial Agriculture	1	(32)
Indictment I	7	(11)
Indictment II	18	(4)
Indictment III	22	(10)
The Solution	32	(1)
The Remedy: Sustainable Agriculture	33	(34)
Nature versus Industry	38	(10)
The Sustainable Era	48	(7)
What is Sustainable?	55	(7)
Down to Earth: Eight Steps to the Next Green Revolution	62	(5)
Down to Earth: Step 1-Create and Conserve Healthy Soil	67	(28)
Not Just Dirt	68	(8)
The Good Earth	76	(8)
Healing the Soil	84	(11)
Clear, Clean Water: Step 2-Conserve Water and Protect its Quality and Step 3-Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution	95	(38)
Washing the Water	103	(6)
Don't Drink Up the Pond	109	(5)
Manage Organic Wastes to Avoid Pollution	114	(8)
Don't Waste the Waste	122	(11)
Think Local: Step 4-Select Plants and Animals Adapted to the Environment	133	(22)
Agroecology	135	(4)
Battling the Hill	139	(4)
The Right Cow for the Right Grass	143	(6)
Think Local	149	(6)
All Creatures Great and Small: Step 5-Encourage Biodiversity	155	(22)
Stewards of Life	160	(5)
Endangered at Home	165	(7)
Terminator Tech	172	(5)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Step 6-Manage Pests with Minimal Environmental, Impact	177	(34)
From Conception Until Death	179	(3)
The Killing Fields	182	(7)
The Chemical Treadmill	189	(3)
It's Nature's Way	192	(4)
The Team Approach	196	(5)
Interactions	201	(10)
Power: Step 7-Conserve Nonrenewable Energy Resources	211	(18)
Agriculture's Achilles' Heel	214	(4)
Low-Input Farming	218	(11)
Money: Step 8-Increase Profitability and Reduce Risk	229	(22)
A Penny Saved	235	(5)
A Penny Earned	240	(5)
Ecological Economics	245	(6)
Two Roads	251	(14)
Attachment to the Local Community and Care for the Surrounding Land	255	(10)
Notes	265	(20)
Bibliography	285	(14)
Index	299