Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture2016-04-192016-04-192010978-0-309-14896-20-309-14896-0http://hdl.handle.net/10919/68903Metadata only record"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)text/plainen-USIn CopyrightBiodiversitySustainable developmentWater managementLocal policyAgricultureSoil fertilityVulnerability and riskFood safetyFood securityMarketsSustainable agricultureNutrient managementOrganic farmingNatural resource managementFarming systemsClimate changeU.s. farming systemCase studiesSub-Saharan AfricaGreen revolutionUnited StatesAlternative agricultureNational research councilEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governance WatershedAbstractCopyright 2010 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.