REDESIGNING AGROECOSYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY - A DEEP SYSTEMS-APPROACH

Modern agriculture is unsustainable, largely because our overemphasis on production, and on its achievement through inappropriate physical, chemical and biological manipulation, has resulted in the neglect of m aintenance functions within agroecosystems. This blind spot is one of a number that are indicators of our undeveloped and distressed psychos ocial state. Only by including such factors in our systems analyses wi ll it be possible to establish a truly sustainable agriculture and foo d system. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.