Agroecosystem Sustainability

About this book

Defines the relationship between agroecology and sustainable development, and explores strategies for helping farmers make the transition to sustainable farming systems. The eleven contributions discuss both management practices specific to a particular region and more global efforts to develop set of indicators of sustainability. Topics include increasing sustainability in Mediterranean cropping systems with self-reseeding annual legumes, manipulating plant biodiversity to enhance biological control of insect pests, nematode communities as ecological indicators of agroecosystem health, and a policy oriented analysis of socioenvironmental dynamics with special reference to forest margins in North Lampung, Indonesia.