TY - JOUR
KW - biodiversity
KW - land use
KW - soils
KW - sustainable agriculture
KW - local knowledge
KW - pest management
KW - weeds
KW - ecosystem
KW - plant diseases
KW - food production
KW - energy use
KW - agronomy
KW - insects
AU - Miguel A. Altieri
AU - Deborah K. Letourneau
AU - James R. Davis
AB - 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)
AN - 91-01859
BT - BioScience
C1 - BioScience
C6 - 0006-3568, 1525-3244
DA - 01/1983
DB - bioscience.oxfordjournals.org
DO - 10.2307/1309244
IS - 1
LA - English
N2 - 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)
PY - 1983
SP - 45
EP - 49
T2 - BioScience
TI - Developing sustainable agroecosystems
UR - http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/1/45
VL - 33
ER -