Titre :	Culturing sustainability
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Importance :	p 197-229
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	SCIENCES AGRICOLES
Mots-clés :	DURABILITE  RECHERCHE AGRICOLE  POLYCULTURE  FINANCEMENT AGRICOLE
Résumé :	A sustainable agriculture requires and supports a sustainable society. The challenge is to meet human needs without denying our descendant’s birthright to the natural inheritance of this planet. While farms designed in nature’s image may provide the ecological ingredients of sustainability, this is only part of the picture of sustainable agriculture, for it is also necessary to address how people fit into the system. The scientific feasibility of perennial polycultures may be irrelevant if they prove to be impractical from a social, economic or institutional viewpoint. This chapter addresses some of the human aspects of the feasibility of perennial polycultures. Whereas some aspects of present-day culture are highly conservative and bode ill for such a radical change in how food is grown, other signs are hopeful, indicating that change is already afoot. While a thorough review of all the consequences of such a change is beyond the authors’ predictive powers, the chapter begins by addressing three important concerns : food costs, acceptance of of new foods and effects on farm size, profitability, social sustainability. The rest of the chapter focuses on preconditions that are necessary to make a change to perennial polyculture farming feasible in human terms.
Numéro du document :	A 10266/A00
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	AGRICULTURE EN GENERAL
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	AGRICULTURE-CONSIDERATIONS GENERALES

Culturing sustainability [texte imprimé] . - [s.d.] . - p 197-229.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	SCIENCES AGRICOLES
Mots-clés :	DURABILITE  RECHERCHE AGRICOLE  POLYCULTURE  FINANCEMENT AGRICOLE
Résumé :	A sustainable agriculture requires and supports a sustainable society. The challenge is to meet human needs without denying our descendant’s birthright to the natural inheritance of this planet. While farms designed in nature’s image may provide the ecological ingredients of sustainability, this is only part of the picture of sustainable agriculture, for it is also necessary to address how people fit into the system. The scientific feasibility of perennial polycultures may be irrelevant if they prove to be impractical from a social, economic or institutional viewpoint. This chapter addresses some of the human aspects of the feasibility of perennial polycultures. Whereas some aspects of present-day culture are highly conservative and bode ill for such a radical change in how food is grown, other signs are hopeful, indicating that change is already afoot. While a thorough review of all the consequences of such a change is beyond the authors’ predictive powers, the chapter begins by addressing three important concerns : food costs, acceptance of of new foods and effects on farm size, profitability, social sustainability. The rest of the chapter focuses on preconditions that are necessary to make a change to perennial polyculture farming feasible in human terms.
Numéro du document :	A 10266/A00
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	AGRICULTURE EN GENERAL
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	AGRICULTURE-CONSIDERATIONS GENERALES