Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Incidence of Acute Pesticide Poisoning Among Cotton Growers in India 115 IPCS. International Programme on Chemical Safety, 2000– ...

116 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Taha T. E. and Gray R. H., 1993. Agricultural pesticide exposure and prenatal mortality ...

Part II Agroecology and Sustainability ...

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6 The Properties of Agroecosystems Gordon R. Conway Introduction Agroecosystems are ecological systems modified by human beings ...

120 Agroecology and Sustainability In the transformation the great diversity of wildlife in the original natural system is reduc ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 121 Figure 6.2 The hierarchy of agroecosystems ...

122 Agroecology and Sustainability milk cow in a stall, but it is possible to think of the individual plant in a crop population ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 123 there is no obvious ‘goal’ for a population, community or ecosystem and these properties ar ...

124 Agroecology and Sustainability are components of capital, but both energy and technology can be treated, for many purposes, ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 125 A ubiquitous input is the subsidy, often in the form of a fertilizer application, intended ...

126 Agroecology and Sustainability Equitability Equitability is defined as the evenness of distribution of the productivity of t ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 127 normative indicators of performance, rather than neutral descriptors, then agricul- tural d ...

128 Agroecology and Sustainability The origins of agriculture Much is known about the where, when, and, to some extent, how, of ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 129 Manorial agriculture One of the longest lasting agroecosystems in history was the manorial ...

130 Agroecology and Sustainability Source: Titow, 1972. Figure 6.4 Cereal yields for 14 manors under the jurisdiction of the Bis ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 131 Modern western agriculture The dominant factor in western agriculture during the latter par ...

132 Agroecology and Sustainability examining the various consequences of moving towards a lower input/lower out- put agriculture ...

The Properties of Agroecosystems 133 Indonesia’s rice strategy has also had dramatic effects on labour use and equi- tability (C ...

134 Agroecology and Sustainability loss of sustainability or equitability. Such packages include Integrated Pest Man- agement, m ...