Iris Publishers - World Journal of Agriculture and Soil Science (WJASS)
Dealing with the Sins of the Past and
Work towards a Nature-Based Future: New Innovative Technologies for Sustainable
Agriculture
Authorized
by Leonard Sonnenschein
Many
third world developing countries agricultural systems are on the verge of a
collapse due to a number of failed schemes. The residues of pesticides,
herbicides, fertilizers, and over-use of soil have led to an inability for
production to reach optimized levels. The structures for financing and
subsidizing the farmers are broken and have proved to be less effective and
unsustainable. The effects of climate change have further marginalized
productivity due to change in soil conditions and relative cropping equations.
The effluents from the farm fields are toxifying streams and residues are being
built up into oceanic areas in the form of new eutrophic zones. Further to
these factors are the insufficiencies of education, marketing, transportation
and the growing lack of nutritional value of the crops raised. To all of these
crises there is a need to reinvent the agriculture system towards natural and
organic sustainability - economically, environmentally, for food security and
eco-safety
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