Traditional Forms Of Agriculture: Unexpected Degree Of Diversity, Time-honored Principles

Monday, August 4, 2008 - 12:35 in Earth & Climate

The general public often regards traditional agriculture in the light of principles emphasizing self-sufficiency, or even sheer survival, as opposed to cash cropping, manual labor as opposed to an extreme level of mechanization, extensive practices as opposed to intensification. A more caricatural image holds up mixed cropping, whether or not associated with livestock rearing, in a sharp contrast to one of vast prairies of cereal monoculture.

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