Where do we stand on sustainable agriculture?
1986; Soil and Water Conservation Society; Volume: 41; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00224561.1986.12455998
ISSN1941-3300
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
ResumoA New Age is evident throughout the country, from Pennsylvania and New York to California. It is variously described as low-energy, biological, organic, ecological, regenerative, alternative, or sustainable agriculture. Its tenets come from the likes of Alexander von Humboldt, Henry Thoreau, George Marsh, John Muir, John Wesley Powell, Sir Albert Howard, Aldo Leopold, Edward Faulkner, Louis Bromfield, Rachel Carson, Paul Sears, Garret Hardin, and Robert Rodale. Sustainable agriculture involves farming in the image of Nature and predicated on the spiritual and practical notions and ethical dimensions of responsible stewardship and sustainable production of wholesome food. Inspired by farmers' struggle for economic survival that proved to be the beginning of the current agricultural crisis, the renaissance in agriculture extends back at least to 1965 when Dick and Sharon Thompson of Boone, Iowa, purchased their first Buffalo-till planter and cultivator. This movement was reinforced in 1968 by the Thompsons' successful shift from a high-chemical farming system to an organic-input system. The movement was further strengthened in the 1970s by organic-farming research at Washington University in St. Louis, the Rodale Research Center in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and the Land Institute of Salina, Kansas. Simultaneously, a group of …
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