Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century

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dc.contributor.authorCommittee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agricultureen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.spatialSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:48Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:48Zen
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstract"This report of the National Research Council Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture reviews the state of knowledge on farming practices, technologies, and management systems that have the potential to improve the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of agriculture, and it discusses the tradeoffs and risks that might occur if more farms were to adopt those practices, technologies, and systems. The report also identifies knowledge gaps and makes recommendations for future actions to improve agricultural sustainability...This report includes case studies of different kinds of farms and farming systems in different regions of the United States that actively pursue the goal of sustainability and revisits some farms originally featured in Alternative Agriculture." (Excerpts from Executive Summary and Preface)en
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dc.identifier4659en
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-309-14896-2en
dc.identifier.isbn0-309-14896-0en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68903en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWashington, D.C.: The National Academies Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12832en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2010 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectWater managementen
dc.subjectLocal policyen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectSoil fertilityen
dc.subjectVulnerability and risken
dc.subjectFood safetyen
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectSustainable agricultureen
dc.subjectNutrient managementen
dc.subjectOrganic farmingen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectFarming systemsen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectU.s. farming systemen
dc.subjectCase studiesen
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.subjectGreen revolutionen
dc.subjectUnited Statesen
dc.subjectAlternative agricultureen
dc.subjectNational research councilen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governance Watersheden
dc.titleToward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Centuryen
dc.typeAbstracten
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