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Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems. This bestselling textbook provides the essential foundation for understanding this transformation in all its components: agricultural, ecological, economic, social, cultural, and political. It presents a case for food system change, explains the principles and practices underlying the ecological approach to food production, and lays out a vision for a food system based on equity and greater compatibility with the planet's life support systems. New to the fourth edition:
A chapter on Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture, covering the similarities and distinctions among different approaches to sustainable agriculture
A chapter on Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management
A chapter on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture
A chapter on Agriculture and the Climate Crisis
A revised analysis and critique of the food system's embeddedness in the extractive capitalist world economy that reflects ideas in the emerging field of political agroecology
Streamlined treatment of agroecology's foundations in ecological science, making the text more compatible with typical course curricula
A Companion Website at https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781032187105/ incorporates the entire contents of the updated practical manual Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, split into student and lecturer resources. These 24 sample investigations facilitate hands-on learning that involves close observation, creative interpretation, and constant questioning of findings.
Groundbreaking in its first edition and established as the definitive text in its second and third, the fourth edition of Agroecology captures recent developments in the field and forcefully applies the idea that agroecology is a science, a movement, and a practice. Written by a team of experts, this book will encourage students and practitioners to consider the critical importance of transitioning to a new paradigm for food and agriculture.
Contents
Foreword
Preface 1
Preface 2
Authors
Recommendations for Using this Textbook
Section I • Pathway to Agroecology
1 The Case for Fundamental Change in Agriculture
2 Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
3 The Agroecosystem Concept
Section II • Agricultural Organisms and their Environment
4 The Plant: Nutrition, Growth, and Response to the Environment
5 Light
6 Climatic Factors Affecting Plants
7 Biotic Factors and Interactions among Organisms
8 The Soil Ecosystem
9 The Environmental Complex
Section III • System-Level Interactions
10 Population Ecology of Agroecosystems
11 Genetic Resources in Agroecosystems
12 Species Interactions in Crop Communities
13 Agroecosystem Diversity
14 Ecological Pest, Weed, and Disease Management
15 Successional Development and Agroforestry
16 Animals in Agroecosystems
17 Energetics of Agroecosystems
18 Landscape Diversity
Section IV • Agroecological Farms and Communities
19 Sustainability and Its Assessment
20 Converting Farms to Ecologically Based Management
21 Bringing Farmers and Consumers Closer Together
22 Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture
Section V • Transforming the Global Food System
23 Achieving a Just and Sustainable Food System
24 Economic Dynamics of the Food System
25 Agriculture and the Climate Crisis
26 Shaping the Future in the Present
Glossary
References
Index
