Index
Abram, David, 69, 79, 83, 197, 203, 300–302, 314 adaptive management, 84, 105, 108–9, 114, 159, 295, 350–51 agribusiness, 50–52, 54 agriculture agroecological, 51, 121, 133 biointensive, 175, 338 blackbird predation in, 66, 110 community-supported agriculture, 61, 152, 338 companion planting, 111 consolidation of, 139, 293, 308–9 contract farming, 54–55 corporate farms, 24 dead zones and, 17, 75, 181 ecological, 51, 121, 133 etymology, 51 eutrophication due to, 181, 292 of exploitation, 263, 265 fossil-fuel based, 96–97, 100–101, 149–50, 181 green revolution, 124, 141, 170, 258 hunter-gatherers, 304–5 industrial, 52, 56, 102; arguments for, 55; impacts on aquatic systems, 56–57, 146; unsustainability of, 61–62, 75, 147–48, 159, 266–67, 292, 336–37, 343 integrated pest management, 174 land reforms, 125, 170 low-input, 30 moldboard plowing, 178 395 Index monocultures, 110, 166; effects on soil, 34, 36, 240; rice and, 125; synthetic fertilizers and, 107 no-till, 180 organic and certification of, 27, 168, 253, 279–83 perennial polycultures, 33, 69, 150, 211, 338 philosophy and, 294–97 prairie-busting, 41, 71 as public good, 292 research in, 74, 134, 135–36 of restraint, 268–69 social mandate for, 127–28 sustainable, 20–27, 178, 182–83; as ecological revolution, 50; principles for farm management, 105, 108; research agendas in, 186; role of intimacy and methodology in, 102; as three-legged stool, 99–100 tractor implements used in, 45 See also Aigamo method; corporate farms; crop diseases; crop exports; crop rotation schemes; crops; ecology ; insects; livestock; permaculture ; weeds Aigamo method, 174 Albrecht, William. See soil: depletion allowance alpha-male strategies, 315 arsenic poisoning, 148 Audubon, John James, 244 Avery, Dennis, 155 396 Index Carson, Rachel, 171–72 Cartesian paradigm, 260, 279, 343 Center for Rural Affairs, 256 central dogma, 189 See also genetic engineering cheap food myth, 223–24 chlorofluorocarbons, 172, 208 climate change, 145, 179, 218 cloned endangered species, 176 closed nutrient cycling systems, 68, 101, 111, 147, 180 Cobb, John, 60, 273, 275 Cochrane, Willard, 153, 308, 326 Coleman, Mel, Sr., 16 Columbus (Christopher), 262–64 Commoner, Barry, 189, 207 compost, 45–46 ConAgra, 139 context of our innovations, 209 See also mental models; science; technology control management, 32, 83, 105, 295 Copernicus, 196 Corn Belt, 46 corporate farms, 24 Cronon, William, 262 crop diseases, 122, 148 crop exports, 154 crop rotation schemes, 33–35, 107, 126, 227–28 crops alfalfa, 46, 109, 226 barley, 46, 109 buckwheat, 35, 45, 109 canola, 228–29 clover, 45, 109, 226, 233 cool weather, 45, 108, 109 cross-pollination of, 110, 230 flax, 109–10 green manure, 226 horizontal improvement of, 133 leguminous, 35, 108, 233 lentils, 110–11 and livestock integration (see under livestock) millet, 46 oats, 44, 109 Bacon, Francis, 124, 195, 295 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 122 Balfour, Lady Eve, 104 Barber, Dan, 94, 339 Baskin, Yvonne, 163, 292 Benbrook, Chuck, 223 Bender, Jim, 31 Benyus, Janine. See biomimicry movement Berman, Morris, 86 Berry, Thomas, 260, 353–54 Berry, Wendell colonialist principles, 53, 259, 328 hope, 327 long-term impacts of short-term gains, 252 nature as template for agriculture, 113, 211 net result of progress, 103 principles of sustainable agriculture, 31, 152, 267, 288 sense of place, 42 way of ignorance, 343 biblical stories Garden of Eden, 18, 47, 206 Good Samaritan, 18–19 Joseph and the Pharaohs, 145 biodiversity. See ecology biological determinism, 162 biological synergies, 98 biomimicry movement, 210 bipolar food system, 318 See also food Black Angus, 114 blackbird predation, 66, 110 Blank, Steven, 293 blessed unrest, 349, 353–55 See also Hawken, Paul Borlaug, Norman, 141, 145, 190, 323 Brown, Lester, 144 Bruntland Commission, 149 buffalo commons, 132, 326 Buhner, Stephen, 89 Buttel, Frederick, 130 Butz, Earl, 286 capitalism, 94 See also economics [3.148.102.90] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 11:23 GMT) 397 Index closed nutrient cycling systems, 68, 101, 111, 147, 180 complex networks, 85, 97, 142, 182 deep, 123 evolutionary biology, 80, 83, 186 language, role in exploitation of nature, 300–302 long-term thinking and, 252 mass extinctions, 80 philosophy and, 301–3 prairie, 69, 113, 130–31 regional, 128 symbiotic relationships, 35, 182 web of life, 105, 182, 261, 347 wildness and farming, 66–70 See also agriculture: agroecological; resilience economics bust/boom economy, 24 capitalism, 94 colonial economies, 259 economic competitiveness, 307 economic determinism, 296 economic squeeze, 23 economies of scale, 158, 318 efficiency, farm-level, 138, 310 external costs...
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