TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naeem,Shahid
AU  - Lipton,Suzanne
AU  - van Huysen,Tiff
TI  - Sustainable food production: an Earth Institute sustainability primer 
T2  - Columbia University Earth Institute sustainability primers
SN  - 9780231189651 (paperback)
AV  - S494.5.S86 N333 2021
U1  - 338.1 NAE 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sustainable agriculture
KW  - Food industry and trade
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Sustainable development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index; Sustainable Development: A New Century, a New Paradigm -- Nature and Nature's Goods and Services -- Sustainable Development and Food Production -- Food, Farming, and Human Well-Being -- Bringing It All Together: The Sustainable Future Before Us; Issued also in electronic format
N2  - "Industrial agriculture is responsible for widespread environmental degradation and undermines the pursuit of human well-being. With a projected global population of 10 billion by 2050, it is urgent for humanity to achieve a more sustainable approach to farming and food systems. This concise text offers an overview of the key issues in sustainable food production for all readers interested in the ecology and environmental impacts of agriculture. It details the ecological foundations of farming and food systems, showing how knowledge from the natural and social sciences can be used to create sustainable alternatives to the industrial production methods used today. Beginning with a discussion of the role of agriculture in human development, the primer examines how twentieth-century farming methods are environmentally and socially unsustainable, contributing to global change and perpetuating inequalities. The authors explain the principles of environmental sustainability and explore how these principles can be put into practice in agrifood systems. They emphasize the importance of human well-being and insist on the centrality of social and environmental equity and justice. Sustainable Food Production is a compelling guide to how we can improve our ability to feed each other today and preserve the ability of our planet to do so tomorrow. Appropriate for a range of courses in the natural and social sciences, it provides a comprehensive yet accessible framework for achieving agricultural sustainability in the Anthropocene"--
ER  -