Die Intensivierung und Spezialisierung der Nahrungsmittelproduktion haben die Landwirtschaft fundamental umgestaltet und die Biodiversitätskrise angetrieben. Bisher einheitlich formulierte agrarumweltpolitische Ziele und Maßnahmen konnten diesen Verlust nicht aufhalten. Jedoch können regional...

Die Intensivierung und Spezialisierung der Nahrungsmittelproduktion haben die Landwirtschaft fundamental umgestaltet und die Biodiversitätskrise angetrieben. Bisher einheitlich formulierte agrarumweltpolitische Ziele und Maßnahmen konnten diesen Verlust nicht aufhalten. Jedoch können regional...

The question of how various actors envision sustainability transitions and which visions are translated into policy agendas is an important aspect of the sustainability–democracy debate. Applying Jasanoff's concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, this paper examines how three alternative...

"The book has been designed to provide handy reference material on climate change and climate smart agriculture. By categorizing according to the themes and local agricultural scenarios, specific issues pertaining to the climate change problems are extensively discussed and relevant solutions...

PrefaceAbout the Author1. Concept of Crop Ecology2. Historical Developments3 Levels in Ecological Organization4. Crop Ecology5. Plants Distribution6. Agro-Climatic Regions of India7. Ecosystem8. Bio-Geochemical Cycles9. Ecological Succession10. Competition in Crop Plants11. Environmental...

"The debate on "sustainable development", ecosocialism, agroecology and the production of healthy food is increasing in Europe and in the world. This book depicts peasants' struggles for the resistance to the advance of destructive production. It also socializes the results of research, which...

"Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades...

This book is a collection of papers from the OECD meeting on Agri-biodiversity Indicators held jointly with the EU and international organisations in November 2001, in Zurich-Rechkenhols, Switzerland. A key outcome was to establish a common agri-biodiversity framework that helps understand the...

The need for increased food production, enhanced economic growth and poverty reduction, whilst at the same time achieving environmental sustainability, is an issue of growing importance. This book addresses the linkages and tradeoffs involved in solving such key challenges.