Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture Requires Growing and Sustaining an Ecologically Skilled Workforce
| Autor: | Ryan E. Galt, Alastair Iles, Christy Getz, Liz Carlisle, Kate Munden-Dixon, Reggie Knox, Brett Melone, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Joanna Ory, Daniel Press, Adam Calo, Marcia S. DeLonge |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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agroecology
Natural resource economics lcsh:TX341-641 Horticulture Management Monitoring Policy and Law Water scarcity Affordable and Clean Energy Sustainable agriculture agricultural policy Agricultural policy Agroecology new entry farmers Global and Planetary Change Food security lcsh:TP368-456 Ecology business.industry Livelihood Climate Action sustainable agriculture lcsh:Food processing and manufacture Clean Water and Sanitation Agriculture Sustainability diversified farming systems Business lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 3 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2571-581X |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00096 |
| Popis: | In the face of rapidly advancing climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, it is clear that global agriculture must swiftly and decisively shift toward sustainability. Fortunately, farmers and researchers have developed a thoroughly studied pathway to this transition: agroecological farming systems that mimic natural ecosystems, creating tightly coupled cycles of energy, water, and nutrients. A critical and underappreciated feature of agroecological systems is that they replace fossil fuel- and chemical -intensive management with knowledge-intensive management. Hence, the greatest sustainability challenge for agriculture may well be that of replacing non-renewable resources with ecologically-skilled people, and doing so in ways that create and support desirable rural livelihoods. Yet over the past century, US agriculture has been trending in the opposite direction, rapidly replacing knowledgeable people with non-renewable resources and eroding rural economies in the process. Below, we suggest how US policy could pivot to enable and support the ecologically skilled workforce needed to achieve food security in the face of climate change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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