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Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems. This bestselling textbook provides the essential foundation for understanding this transformation in all its components: agricultural, ecological, economic, social, cultural, and political. It presents a case for food system change, explains the principles and practices underlying the ecological approach to food production, and lays out a vision for a food system based on equity and greater compatibility with the planet’s life support systems. New to the fourth edition:
A chapter on Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture, covering the similarities and distinctions among different approaches to sustainable agriculture
A chapter on Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management
A chapter on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture
A chapter on Agriculture and the Climate Crisis
A revised analysis and critique of the food system’s embeddedness in the extractive capitalist world economy that reflects ideas in the emerging field of political agroecology.
Streamlined treatment of agroecology’s foundations in ecological science, making the text more compatible with typical course curricula.
A;Companion Website;incorporates the entire contents of the;updated practical manual Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, split into student and lecturer resources. These 24 sample investigations facilitate hands-on learning that involves close observation, creative interpretation, and constant questioning of findings.
Groundbreaking in its first edition and established as the definitive text in its second and third, the fourth edition of Agroecology captures recent developments in the field and forcefully applies the idea that agroecology is a science, a movement, and a practice. Written by a team of experts, this
Foreword Preface 1 Preface 2 Authors Recommendations for Using this Textbook 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
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