Sustainable agriculture research and education in the field : a proceedings / Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable agriculture--Research--United States--Congresses.

Sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable agriculture--Study and teaching--United States--Congresses.

Sustainable agriculture--United States--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interest is growing in sustainable agriculture, which involves the use of productive and profitable farming practices that take advantage of natural biological processes to conserve resources, reduce inputs, protect the environment, and enhance public health. Continuing research is helping to demonstrate the ways that many factors--economics, biology, policy, and tradition--interact in sustainable agriculture systems. This book contains the proceedings of a workshop on the findings of a broad range of research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The areas of study, such as integrated pest management, alternative cropping and tillage systems, and comparisons with more conventional approaches, are essential to developing and adopting profitable and sustainable farming systems.

Notes:

Papers based on a workshop held in Washington, D.C., Apr. 3-4, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-21188-1

9786610211883

0-309-56857-9

OCLC:

666937114