Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know? by Dent, David

Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030722265)

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Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know? by Dent, David

Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know?

$329.99
Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know? by Dent, David

Regenerative Agriculture: What's Missing? What Do We Still Need to Know?

$329.99
Format: Paperback
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The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society. The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives, drawing on a wealth of expertise on the political economy of the food system, Conservation Agriculture, and long-term field experiments.

Regenerative agriculture builds on known knowns - like crop rotation, water and nutrient requirements, soil and water conservation, farm-gate prices, international trade and supply chains. It grapples with known unknowns - like weed, pest and disease control without agrochemicals, cover crops for profit as well as protection, mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis, resilience and tipping points in ecosystems, farming systems and societies, and how we can pay for imperative changes. Lastly, it acknowledges unknown unknowns - the things we are oblivious to but which we really must know - like how to liberate the ghettos of the mind inhabited by farmers, agronomists, politicians and societies.

Author: David Dent
ISBN-10: 3030722260
ISBN-13: 9783030722265
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2022
Pages: 355
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d
By David Dent
By David Dent
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Boris Boincean knows the black earth. As a son of the steppe, he has spent his professional life cheek by jowl with chernozem. He holds the degree of Dr Hab. agricultural sciences from Moscow Timireazev Akademy (University) and, for many years, has directed the long-term field experiments at the Selectia Research Institute for Field Crops on the Bălţi Steppe, in Moldova - the very soil described by Dokuchaev in 1887 as 'first class'. He also holds the Chair of Natural Resources and Agro-ecology at Alecu Russo Bălţi State University.

David Dent is an independent scientist. He has worked in soil survey, land evaluation and land use planning on every continent - in the public service as a researcher and university teacher, and as a consultant to governments, international organisations and the private sector. Most recently, he was Director of ISRIC World Soil Information in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and he now works from his farmhouse in Norfolk.

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