Dealing with the Sins of the Past and Work towards a Nature-Based Future: New Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
Journal Title: World Journal of Agriculture and Soil Science - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Many third world developing countries agricultural systems are on the verge of a collapse due to a number of failed schemes. The residues of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and over-use of soil have led to an inability for production to reach optimized levels. The structures for financing and subsidizing the farmers are broken and have proved to be less effective and unsustainable. The effects of climate change have further marginalized productivity due to change in soil conditions and relative cropping equations. The effluents from the farm fields are toxifying streams and residues are being built up into oceanic areas in the form of new eutrophic zones. Further to these factors are the insufficiencies of education, marketing, transportation and the growing lack of nutritional value of the crops raised. To all of these crises there is a need to reinvent the agriculture system towards natural and organic sustainability - economically, environmentally, for food security and eco-safety.
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Leonard Sonnenschein
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- DOI 10.33552/WJASS.2019.02.000526
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