Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing
food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.
Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues
such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation
starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion,
fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel,
environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated
knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular
biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences.
Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that
occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level
at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists
use the system approach that involves studying components and
interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and
social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a
classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the
classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts,
sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual
society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing,
sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.
This book series gathers review articles that analyze current
agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions.
It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors,
farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and
food system for future generations.
