Overview
- A vade mecum for climate-smart, sustainable agriculture
- Draws on vast international, practical experience set in today’s policy context
- Wide-ranging yet clearly focussed on today’s issues of agriculture and the environment, from soil and water management and climate change to farm-gate prices and the power relations of consumers, corporates, politicians, and farmers
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Table of contents (31 papers)
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Front Matter
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Known Knowns
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What’s Missing?
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About this book
The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society. The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives, drawing on a wealth of expertise on the political economy of the food system, Conservation Agriculture, and long-term field experiments.
Regenerative agriculture builds on known knowns – like crop rotation, water and nutrient requirements, soil and water conservation, farm-gate prices, international trade and supply chains. It grapples with known unknowns – like weed, pest and disease control without agrochemicals, cover crops for profit as well as protection, mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis, resilience and tipping points in ecosystems, farming systems and societies,and how we can pay for imperative changes. Lastly, it acknowledges unknown unknowns – the things we are oblivious to but which we really must know – like how to liberate the ghettos of the mind inhabited by farmers, agronomists, politicians and societies.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Dent is an independent scientist. He has worked in soil survey, land evaluation and land use planning on every continent - in the public service as a researcher and university teacher, and as a consultant to governments, international organisations and the private sector. Most recently, he was Director of ISRIC World Soil Information in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and he now works from his farmhouse in Norfolk.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regenerative Agriculture
Book Subtitle: What’s Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know?
Editors: David Dent, Boris Boincean
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72224-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72223-4Published: 22 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72226-5Published: 23 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72224-1Published: 21 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 355
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general