AGROECOLOGY

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 practi