Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward

Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward presents the foundational causes of agricultural land degradation that are embedded in conventional tillage agriculture and elaborates on what must change in order to achieve sustainable production intensification as a basis for responsible land stewardship. The book addresses the sustainable management of agricultural soil systems as biological systems, integrating and implementing agro-ecological principles and using responsible land management practices for both perennial and annual cropping systems. Other sections of note include sustainable forest land management, policy and institutional support for responsible land use. In addition, it further explains what is not right with the conventional tillage agriculture and how it can be transformed into a responsible and sustainable economic activity which is also ecologically, environmentally and socially sustainable. Reveals the root causes of land-use degradation and the over-use of land resourcesExplores a paradigm of agriculture that is sustainable, efficient, resilient and allows for harnessing of ecosystem services under intensive land useIdentifies the farming and societal changes necessary for agriculture, food habits and choices to contribute to responsible behaviors at national and international levelsPresents key insights on regenerative agriculture, responsible diets, corporate, political and societal choices INDICE: 1. Questioning the status quo 2. Drivers of change in food and agriculture systems: a historical perspective 3. The political economy of the global food and agriculture system 4. Impacts of the current food and agriculture system 5. A new paradigm for agriculture? 6. Soil and agroecosystems as living biological systems in sustainable agriculture 7. Climate change adaptability and mitigation in sustainable agriculture 8. Seed biodiversity management systems for responsible agriculture and food systems 9. Responsible biotechnology for sustainable agriculture and food systems 10. Healthy diets as a guide for responsible food systems 11. Co-creating responsible food and agriculture systems 12. Knowledge systems in supporting responsible food and agriculture systems 13. Social institutions and movements in the transformation of food and agriculture systems 14. The role of national governments and the international community in supporting responsible food and agriculture systems 15. Summing up: Making responsible food and agriculture systems a reality

• ISBN: 978-0-12-816410-5
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés