HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Soil Fertility, Crop Rotation, Food Security
31 Mar 2016
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Sustainability: the ability of system to continue to do what it was designed to do. In the case of the earth: provide fresh air and clean water, produce food, allow satisfactory quality of life. This system of industrialized monoculture food production (aka. This system may be destroying the biodiversity on which it depends, and in turn, negatively impacting human health. Conventional intensive agriculture (industrial agriculture: practices that allow for specialization in specific crops (or animals) and are based on an industrial model of high-efficiency production that: Attempts to control and manage nature as just another commodity. Biodiversity is fundamental to the health of : soil, contiguous land and water (land/water-beside each other, birds and bees, wildlife, humans. Health of soil: fertile soil has high levels of soil organic matter (som) Which harm/kill micro-organisms and invertebrates in the soil. Rise to dangerous levels in the soil. Kill local flora and fauna that are not engineered for these synthetic inputs.
