Agroecology versus input substitution: A fundamental contradiction of sustainable agriculture
Agroecology versus input substitution: A fundamental contradiction of sustainable agriculture
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生态农业与投入替代：可持续农业的基本矛盾
DOI：
10.1080/08941929709381027
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Altieri
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作者：
P. Rosset;M. Altieri
本文提出的中心问题是，可持续农业是否能够将现代工业化农业从目前的危机状态中拯救出来。为了回答这个问题，本文首先概述了危机的经济、社会和生态方面，为了使农业摆脱危机，每一个方面都必须通过另一种范式来解决。然后研究了替代农业运动中一个持续存在的矛盾：投入替代与农业生态-热量信息农业系统的转变。有人认为，投入替代的盛行，即强调农用化学品投入的替代品，而不挑战农业系统的单一栽培结构，极大地削弱了可持续农业的潜力。这种占主导地位的方法只解决环境问题，既没有希望扭转资源基础的迅速退化以供未来生产，也没有希望解决目前的利润挤压。
The central question posed by this essay is whether sustainable agriculture will be able to rescue modern industrial agriculture from its present state of crisis. To answer this question this article begins by outlining the economic, social, and ecological dimensions of the crisis, each of which must be addressed by an alternative paradigm in order to pull agriculture out of crisis. It then examines a persistent contradiction in the alternative agriculture movement: that of input substitution versus agroecologi‐calty informed transformation of farming systems. It is argued that the prevalence of input substitution, which emphasizes alternatives to agrochemical inputs without challenging the monoculture structure of agricultural systems, greatly diminishes the potential of sustainable agriculture. By only addressing environmental concerns, this dominant approach offers little hope of either reversing the rapid degradation of the resource base for future production or of resolving the current profit squeeze...