1st Edition

Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Greening the World's Food Economy

196 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land. Co-written by Jules Pretty, one of the pioneers of the concept and... Read more

1. It could be a wonderful world

2. Twenty-first century agriculture and food

3. The sustainable intensification of agriculture

4. Does sustainable intensification work?

5. Sustainable intensification on smaller farms in developing countries

6. Sustainable intensification in industrialised countries

7. Redesigning an agricultural knowledge economy with social capital

8. Sustainable intensification for greener economies

9. World-building by redesign

References

Biography

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, UK. His sole-authored books include The East Country (2017), The Edge of Extinction (2014), This Luminous Coast (2011), The Earth Only Endures (2007), Agri-Culture (2002) and Regenerating Agriculture (1995). He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. He received the UK honour of OBE in 2006 for services to sustainable agriculture, and an honorary degree from Ohio State University in 2009. He has made many media contributions, including to BBC radio, on agriculture, food and sustainability.

Zareen Pervez Bharucha is a Research Fellow in the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where she leads the Global Risk and Resilience research theme. Her work addresses sustainability transitions, resilience and adaptation with a particular focus on rainfed farms in India. She is also co-editor and author of Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities  (2015) and Deputy Editor for the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

'Pretty and Bharucha have presented a text to draw attention to a major global issue which requires immediate action. It is relevant to all those wih environmental interests' - Antoinette Mannion, The Niche, British Ecological Society