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Title: | Ecological agriculture in China: bridging the gap between rhetoric and practice of sustainability | Contributor(s): | Shi, Tian (author) | Publication Date: | 2002 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00122-2 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11736 | Abstract: | This paper provides a perspective on the potential of Chinese ecological agriculture to address sustainable human–environmental interactions. As Chinese agriculture is increasingly challenged by the constraints of population, resources and environment emerging from its modern development, it is imperative to explore a sustainable agricultural paradigm that could accommodate economic and socio-cultural needs within an already stressed natural resource base. The rise of ecological agriculture is suggested as a workable alternative that has the potential to mitigate negative impacts of modern conventional agriculture and at the same time, to overcome limitations of traditional agriculture in meeting the needs of China's growing population. Ecological agriculture represents a site-specific manifestation of the application of ecological economics, among others, to agricultural practices. Some challenges being experienced in translating this rhetoric into practice are identified and discussed. Highlighted is the view that sustainable agricultural development is meaningful only when it is tailored to specific ecological, economic, political and socio-cultural settings. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Ecological Economics, 42(3), p. 359-368 | Publisher: | Elsevier BV | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1873-6106 0921-8009 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 070108 Sustainable Agricultural Development | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 919999 Economic Framework not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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