Agro-Ecosystem Diversity : Reconciling Contemporary Agriculture and Environmental Quality

This book demonstrates that diversified agro-ecosystems can be intensified with environmental quality preserved, restored and enhanced. It includes analysis of economic constraints leading to specialisation of farms and regions and the social locking forces resisting to diversification of agro-ecosystems. It presents a global vision of world agriculture and the trade-off between a necessary increase in food production and restoring environment quality.