New Roots for Agriculture

by Wes Jackson

Book Overview

"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword," writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is "the failure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803275625
• ISBN13: 9780803275621
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"