Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0803275625
ISBN-13
9780803275621
Edition
New Edition
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Imprint
University of Nebraska Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1980
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
270 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Agriculture & farming
Ksh 2,350.00
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Offers a documented criticism of the assumptions and the effects of industrial agriculture. This book proposes practical remedies. It documents some trends in our ability to produce food.
"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword," writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is "the failure of success." As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy.
Jackson''s major solution calls for the development of plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and re-newing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil-fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. His new way of raising crops, by working with the soil''s natural systems, would keep the world''s bread-basket producing perpetually.
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