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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Other Articles of Note: Holger Kirchmann and Gudni Thorvaldsson Challenging Targets for Future Agriculture. (... an interesting overview/review article with a European orientation on the future of agriculture. The authors discuss several quality components for agriculture which are a type of checklist of those factors that we should be aware of concerning protection of the environment, production of healthy food and the practice of good ethics and which can be integrated into the general aims of sustainable agriculture. Please see pages 153-155 for a discussion of organic farming and ways in which the authors point out the inability of organic farming methods to solve some of the major environmental problems faced by modern agriculture. The authors conclude that innovation, creative solutions and discoveries based on natural sciences will be helpful in the development of sustainable agriculture, but not methods based on dogmatism. Other keywords and phrases -- biological diversity, carbon dioxide, circulation of plant nutrients, CO2, compaction of subsoils, ethics, greenhouse gases, groundwater, leaching of plant nutrients, low leaching cropping systems, methane, nitrous oxides, pesticide, precision agriculture, regional farm specialization, salinization, soil erosion, soil fertility, soil pollution, specialisation, water use -- from the text of the abstract and the article; see the extensive bibliography) European Journal of Agronomy Volume 12, Numbers 3-4 (June 2000): 145-161. **An abstract of the article is currently available through the Web site of European Journal of Agronomy** How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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