Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, Science, Earth Sciences
| Author: | Steven McFadden | ISBN: | 9781792309212 |
| Publisher: | Steven McFadden | Publication: | October 1, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Steven McFadden |
| ISBN: | 9781792309212 |
| Publisher: | Steven McFadden |
| Publication: | October 1, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Agroecology is an ecological approach to growing food and fiber that views farms and orchards as ecosystems. Internationally, agroecology is increasingly recognized as an approach capable of meeting productivity goals while replenishing the soil, sequestering climate destabilizing CO2, and striving toward justice for all the human beings and animals in the food system.
Deep Agroecology arises from recognition that the way we farm will determine the destiny of life on the earth. As a philosophy and as an approach, deep agroecology weaves the spiritual realities of planet earth into direct and balanced relationship with the physical realities. Deep agroecology is a natural, logical and necessary next evolutionary step, graced with an array of wholesome, leading-edge principles and practices.
While Deep Agroecology is new territory, it's natural territory, not just for farmers, but for all people. Farms are the foundation of our civilizations, and that foundation is undergoing massive upheaval. We must be about building a new agrarian foundation that can support in a healthy, spiritually intelligent way the high-tech, corporately dominated digital waves of culture sweeping so powerfully around the world.
Farms and farmers can build that foundation, but only with the intelligent involvement and active support of people and communities who depend upon them for survival.
Agroecology is an ecological approach to growing food and fiber that views farms and orchards as ecosystems. Internationally, agroecology is increasingly recognized as an approach capable of meeting productivity goals while replenishing the soil, sequestering climate destabilizing CO2, and striving toward justice for all the human beings and animals in the food system.
Deep Agroecology arises from recognition that the way we farm will determine the destiny of life on the earth. As a philosophy and as an approach, deep agroecology weaves the spiritual realities of planet earth into direct and balanced relationship with the physical realities. Deep agroecology is a natural, logical and necessary next evolutionary step, graced with an array of wholesome, leading-edge principles and practices.
While Deep Agroecology is new territory, it's natural territory, not just for farmers, but for all people. Farms are the foundation of our civilizations, and that foundation is undergoing massive upheaval. We must be about building a new agrarian foundation that can support in a healthy, spiritually intelligent way the high-tech, corporately dominated digital waves of culture sweeping so powerfully around the world.
Farms and farmers can build that foundation, but only with the intelligent involvement and active support of people and communities who depend upon them for survival.
