Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life
By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture
Within the final two decades, there was a amazing emergence of concepts and technological advances which are producing promising alterations and possibilities for sustainable agriculture, but even as the rural zone around the globe faces a number of daunting demanding situations. not just is the rural quarter anticipated to provide sufficient meals, fiber, and feed, and give a contribution to biofuels to fulfill the wishes of a emerging international inhabitants, it truly is anticipated to take action lower than more and more scarce ordinary assets and weather swap. becoming information of the accidental affects linked to a few agricultural construction practices has ended in heightened societal expectancies for more advantageous environmental, neighborhood, exertions, and animal welfare criteria in agriculture. towards Sustainable Agricultural structures within the twenty first Century assesses the medical facts for the strengths and weaknesses of alternative creation, advertising, and coverage techniques for bettering and lowering the prices and unintentional effects of agricultural construction. It discusses the foundations underlying farming structures and practices that may increase the sustainability. It additionally explores how these classes discovered might be utilized to agriculture in several local and overseas settings, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. by means of concentrating on a structures method of bettering the sustainability of U.S. agriculture, this e-book may have a profound effect at the improvement and implementation of sustainable farming platforms. towards Sustainable Agricultural platforms within the twenty first Century serves as a useful source for coverage makers, farmers, specialists in meals construction and agribusiness, and federal regulatory firms.
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The farming system thus includes community linkages, market integration, labor relationships, and interaction with a wide array of other influencing factors. A farming system type can be defined by any commonalities that one might wish to specify—for example, rangeland, dryland, irrigated, dairy, field crop, high-value crop—and includes the broad range of context-specific farming systems within the type. Food systems and agrifood systems refer to the complex set of actors, activities, and institutions that link food production to food consumption.
Html TOWARD SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY • Identifying and researching the potential of new forms of production systems that represent a dramatic departure from (rather than incremental improvement of) the dominant systems of present-day American agriculture. • Identifying and researching system characteristics that increase resilience and adaptability in the face of changing conditions. • Adjusting the mix of farming system types and the practices used in them at the landscape level to address major regional problems such as water overdraft and environmental contamination.
Html Summary A griculture is facing daunting challenges. Not only are farmers expected to produce adequate agricultural products at affordable prices to meet the food, fiber, feed, and biofuel needs of a rising global population, but also they are expected to do so under conditions of rising production costs and increasingly scarce natural resources and climate change. Growing awareness of unintended impacts associated with some agricultural production practices has led to heightened societal expectations for improved environmental, community, labor, and animal welfare standards in agriculture.