After the Green Revolution : Sustainable Agriculture for Development

ISBN-13: 9781849710190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 210 str.

Gordon R Conway

Opis

'The Green Revolution' of the 60s and 70s produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing returns from intensive and intensively chemical agricultural production. What is needed is a new approach, equally revolutionary, but different in its ideas and style. The authors set out what they mean by 'sustainable' agriculture in the new era and look at the effects of international economic restraints and of national policies on the kind of development they see as necessary.

O autorze

Conway, Gordon R. ; Barbier, Edward B.