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Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture

5/10/2016

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Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture 
1st edition
Miguel A. Altieri & Clara I. Nicholls

There is increasing evidence that warns that the growing push toward industrialization and globalization of the world’s agriculture and food supply imperils the future of humanity and the natural world. Industrial agriculture which is corporate controlled, and promotes agrochemically based, monocultural, export-oriented systems are negatively impacting public health, ecosystem integrity, food quality and nourishment, traditional rural livelihoods, and indigenous and local cultures, while accelerating indebtedness among millions of farmers, and their separation from lands that have historically fed communities and families

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http://www.agroeco.org/doc/agroecology-engl-PNUMA.pdf




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