Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and
energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture
is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing
food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,
soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel,
environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from
sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry,
toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture
decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming
system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries.
For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and
interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues.
In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science.
Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats
only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most
actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable
agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers
review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose
alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers,
professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and
food system for future generations.

http://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Organic-Farming-Sustainable-Agriculture/dp/9048133327

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