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The current model for industrialized agriculture is at a crossroads, characterized by degraded soil and environment, unbalanced human nutrition, food safety issues, loss of trust between consumer and producer, and finally sustainability at risk. By critically reviewing and integrating the definition and technological evolution of agriculture, agroecology links agricultural sciences with ecology to form an interdisciplinary and holistic science, generalized for steering an imperative agroecological transition in this anthropocentric era.
……but just simply distributing seeds and fertilizer, if that’s the plan, it’s going to fail long term.
----Howard Buffett, keynote speech on World Food Prize, 2010.
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Wang, S., Caldwell, C.D. (2020). Agriculture and Its Anthropocentric Sciences. In: Caldwell, C., Wang, S. (eds) Introduction to Agroecology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8836-5_1
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