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Soil ecology in sustainable agricultural systems /edited by Lijbert Brussaard, Ronald Ferrera-Cerrato
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Boca Raton CRC/Lewis Publishers

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Perspectives for agronomy : adopting ecological principles and managing resource use, proceedings of the 4th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy, Veldhoven and Wageningen, The Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996
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ISBN: 9780444828521 0444828524 9780080538662 0080538665 1281120049 9781281120045 9786611120047 6611120041 Year: 1997 Volume: 25 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier,

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During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue conciliating environmental, agricultural, and economic and social objectives. Placing agriculture in such a broadened perspective requires a different agronomy, with new tools and approaches at a range of aggregration levels. It calls for detailed knowledge concerning the functioning, productivity a

Professional Societies and Ecologically Based Pest Management
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ISBN: 0309071321 9786610185405 1280185406 030956297X 9780309562973 9780309071321 0309183847 Year: 2000 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press

Biodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries
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ISBN: 9251049173 9789251049174 Year: 2003 Publisher: Rome: FAO,

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Farmers, fisherfolk, and forest dwellers not only understand and can apply ecosystem approaches in their decision-making, but also understand the potential impact of large-scale environmental threats to their livelihoods. FAO's biodiversity programmes apply ecosystem approaches to stimulate community level education and experiential learning by rural people. The same approaches educate national policy makers wishing to fulfill commitments made to environmental treaties while still meeting agricultural production demands. There are over 500 million farm management units in the world, overwhelmingly found in developing countries. FAO's ongoing field work in over 100,000 rural communities has found that all those farm managers can understand their farms, fields, forest, rangelands and fisheries as ecosystems. Farmers, even in the poorest and most food-insecure regions of the world, manage genes by their decision on crop varieties, manage species by their decisions on farm animals and manage ecosystems by their decision on soil pollination.

Nuclear techniques in soil-plant studies for sustainable agriculture and environmental preservation : proceedings of an international symposium on nuclear and related techniques in soil plants studies on sustainable agriculture and environmental preservation [...] held in Vienna, 17-21 October 1994

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