TY - BOOK ID - 101467522 TI - The agricultural dilemma : how not to feed the world PY - 2022 SN - 1003286259 1000609707 1032260459 9781032260457 1032260475 9781032260471 100060974X PB - New York, New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Sustainable agriculture. KW - Alternative agriculture. KW - Agricultural ecology. KW - Agricultural administration. KW - Sustainable agriculture KW - Alternative agriculture KW - Agricultural ecology KW - Agricultural administration KW - Agriculture KW - Agroecology KW - Ecology KW - Permaculture KW - Agriculture, Alternative KW - Alternative agricultural systems KW - Alternative farming systems KW - Agricultural systems KW - Appropriate technology KW - Low-input agriculture KW - Low-input sustainable agriculture KW - Lower input agriculture KW - Resource-efficient agriculture KW - Sustainable farming KW - Environmental aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101467522 AB - "In this book an ecological anthropologist, who has studied farming systems from small-scale African hoe cultivators to industrial American agribusiness, provides a new analysis of population and agricultural growth. This book argues that we can't make sense of population and food production without recognizing the drivers of three fundamentally different types of agriculture. It identifies and explores these three fundamental forms of agricultural growth: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization (external-input-dependent) and intensification (labour-based). Synthesizing findings from historical and scientific research, the book upends entrenched misconceptions such as that we are running out of land for food production, that our only hope is development of new agricultural technologies, that new technologies are developed mainly in response to food demands, and that such technologies saved a billion lives when they were brought to India and the developing world. Containing vignettes, short histories and drawing on global case studies, this book will not only be of interest to students and scholars of agriculture, land management and development, but also those more widely interested in learning about agri-food systems and the challenges of feeding a growing population"-- ER -