This report assesses the scientific evidence for the strengths and wasknesses of different production, marketing, and policy approaches for improving agricultural sustainability and reducing the costs and unintended consequences of agricultural production. It also evaluates the transferability of principles underlying farming systems and practices that could improve the sustainability of small-scale agricultural systems in less developed countries, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. The 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.
570 pages
Committe on 21st century systems agriculture
Publication Details
- Published: 2010
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- ISBN-10: 0309148960
- ISBN-13: 9780309148962
- Dewey Decimal: 630.973
- ECHO Library: 630.973 21st