Sustainable agriculture is characterized by all of the following exdept:?
Image by CGIAR Climate
These photos were taken during the plenary session on "Green Growth and Climate-Smart Agriculture" during the World Bank’s 2012 Sustainable Development Forum on "Green Growth for All" held in Washington, D.C.
Photo: World Bank Group. Please credit appropriately.
In the picture (from left to right) : Juergen Voegele, Sector Director, ARD, World Bank. Dale Andrew, Head of Policies and Environment, OECD. Ricardo Sanchez Lopez, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Colombia. Molly Jahn, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. Bruce Campbell, Director CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Question by white tea: Sustainable agriculture is characterized by all of the following exdept:?
A) Promoting monoculture
B) Lack of requirements of massive amounts of fossil fuels
C) Conserving and building topsoil
D) Lack of use of many artificial chemicals
E) Promoting Polyculture
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A – monoculture
wry humor
August 26, 2012 at 12:37 pm
A)
Cowboy
August 26, 2012 at 1:05 pm
A
ohiorganic
August 26, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Promoting monoculture.
Part of sustainable farming is to make the farm itself a self-supporting ecosystem. That is impossible to do with only one species (which is monoculture). Crops, whether they are animal or vegetable, should complement each other.
Rachael T
August 26, 2012 at 1:58 pm
A
the characteristics of agriculture especially sustainable ones
is:
economically viable
socially viable
environmentally viable
tranbo
August 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm