Agn 115 msu - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

In Fresh (2009), Michael Pollan (author of Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food) makes exaggerated, false, or misleading statements about _____. Select ALL that apply. - animal waste from CAFO lagoons being too concentrated for use as fertilizer a lack of government subsidies for growing healthy food changes in the nutritional values of food since1950 Order the following ecological levels of organization from least (1) to most (4) complex. (Ch 2) - 1. Ecosystem 2. community 3. po...

Characteristics of traditional agroecosystems include - take advantage of the full range of microenvironmental variation within the cropping system, farm, and region; are built on the knowledge and culture of local inhabitants; tolerate of local conditions, insects and diseases, dependent on external, purchased inputs according to gliessman, the prevailing modern agriculture system is not sustainable. ___ is not a factor he says contrives to our unsustainability (ch 1) - --! reliance on sy...

Characteristics of traditional agroecosystems include - take advantage of the full range of microenvironmental variation within the cropping system, farm, and region; are built on the knowledge and culture of local inhabitants; tolerate of local conditions, insects and diseases, dependent on external, purchased inputs according to gliessman, the prevailing modern agriculture system is not sustainable. ___ is not a factor he says contrives to our unsustainability (ch 1) - --! reliance on sy...