Developing sustainable agroecosystems

Reference Type Journal Article
Year of Publication
1983
Contributors Author: Miguel A. Altieri
Author: Deborah K. Letourneau
Author: James R. Davis
Journal
BioScience
Volume
33
Issue
1
Pagination
45-49
Date Published
01/1983
Language
English
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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)
URL
http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/1/45
DOI
10.2307/1309244
Journal Abbreviation
BioScience
ISSN
0006-3568, 1525-3244