Save and grow
Subtitle: a policymaker's guide to sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production
By: [final technical editing, Mangala Rai, Timothy Reeves and Shivaji Pandey ; lead authors: Linda Collette ... [et al.]]
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9789251068717
Subjects: Agricultural systems; Small Farms; Agriculture and state; Sustainable agriculture; Agricultural productivity
Description: "In many countries, decades of intensive cropping have degraded fertile land and depleted groundwater, provoked pest upsurges, eroded biodiversity, and polluted air, soil and water. The present paradigm of intensive crop production cannot meet the challenges of the new millennium. In order to grow, agriculture must learn to save. This book presents a new paradigm: sustainable crop production intensification (SCPI), which produces more from the same area of land while conserving resources, reducing negative impacts on the environment and enhancing natural capital and the flow of ecosystem services"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.