@article{231,
  keywords = {biodiversity, land use, soils, sustainable agriculture, local knowledge, pest management, weeds, ecosystem, plant diseases, food production, energy use, agronomy, insects},
  author = {Miguel A. Altieri and Deborah K. Letourneau and James R. Davis},
  title = {Developing sustainable agroecosystems},
  abstract = {Yields in modern agricultural systems are sustained by investing costly external resources of uncertain future availability and with technologies that have prompted ecosystemic degradation. The ecological and socioeconomic aspects of developing alternative, self-sustained, energy efficient, less resource-intensive agroecosystems are analyzed. (author)},
  year = {1983},
  journal = {BioScience},
  volume = {33},
  pages = {45-49},
  month = {01/1983},
  url = {http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/1/45},
  doi = {10.2307/1309244},
  language = {English},
}