Agroecology

Agroecology

Leading the Transformation to a Just and Sustainable Food System

Mendez, V. Ernesto; Engles, Eric W.; Izzo, Victor M.; Gliessman, Stephen R.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2022

442

Dura

Inglês

9781032187105

15 a 20 dias

1496

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Foreword

Preface 1

Preface 2

Authors

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Section I * Pathway to Agroecology

1 The Case for Fundamental Change in Agriculture

2 Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

3 The Agroecosystem Concept

Section II * Agricultural Organisms and their Environment

4 The Plant: Nutrition, Growth, and Response to the Environment

5 Light

6 Climatic Factors Affecting Plants

7 Biotic Factors and Interactions among Organisms

8 The Soil Ecosystem

9 The Environmental Complex

Section III * System-Level Interactions

10 Population Ecology of Agroecosystems

11 Genetic Resources in Agroecosystems

12 Species Interactions in Crop Communities

13 Agroecosystem Diversity

14 Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management

15 Successional Development and Agroforestry

16 Animals in Agroecosystems

17 Energetics of Agroecosystems

18 Landscape Diversity

Section IV * Agroecological Farms and Communities

19 Sustainability and Its Assessment

20 Converting Farms to Ecologically Based Management

21 Bringing Farmers and Consumers Closer Together

22 Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

Section V * Transforming the Global Food System

23 Achieving a Just and Sustainable Food System

24 Economic Dynamics of the Food System

25 Agriculture and the Climate Crisis

26 Shaping the Future in the Present

Glossary

References

Index
Food System;Vice Versa;Sustainable Food System;C4 Photosynthesis;C3 Plant;Land Equivalent Ratio;Industrial Food System;Alternative Food Networks;Cover Cropping;Food System Change;Agri Food System;UN;Soil Fertility;Cropping System;Soil Management;Food System Transformation;Global Food System;Complementary Pathways;GE Crop;Soil Quality;GE Organism;Allelopathic Compounds;Removal Interferences;C4 Plant;Total LER