Seeds of Sustainability

Seeds of Sustainable Agriculture is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and students alike, it examines new approaches to make agricultural landscapes healthier for both the environment and people.

The Yaqui Valley is one of the most intensive agricultural regions of the world. It also faces resource limitations, threats to human health, and rapidly changing economic conditions. Pamela Matson and colleagues from leading institutions in the U.S. and Mexico spent fifteen years addressing this challenge.

Seeds of Sustainable Agriculture provides unparalleled information about the causes and consequences of current agricultural methods. It also shows how knowledge can translate into better practices, not just in the Yaqui Valley, but throughout the world.

Autorentext

Pamela Matson was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley at the beginning of the Yaqui Valley research project. She then moved to Stanford University, becoming the Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies and Co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Institute for International Studies. She is currently Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Inhalt

Timeline for Agricultural Development in the Yaqui Valley, 1890-2004

Acronyms

Preface

PART I: THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION

Chapter 1: Why the Yaqui Valley? An Introduction

Pamela Matson and Walter Falcon

Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Yaqui Valley

Ashley Dean

PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Chapter 3: Looking for Win-Wins in Intensive Agriculture

Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio

Chapter 4: Ecosystems and Land-use Change in the Yaqui Valley: Does Agricultural Intensification "Spare Land for Nature"?

Pamela Matson and Peter Jewett

Chapter 5: Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Change and

Effectiveness

Ellen McCullough and Pamela Matson

Chapter 6: Exploring Vulnerability in the Yaqui Valley Human-Environment System

Pamela Matson, Amy Luers, and Ellen McCullough

Chapter 7: From Wheat to Waves and Back Again: Connections between the Yaqui Valley and the Gulf of California

Michael Beman and Amy Luers

PART III: ELEMENTS OF THE YAQUI VALLEY SYSTEM

Chapter 8: The Yaqui Valley's Agricultural Transition to a More Open Economy

Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon

Chapter 9: Agricultural Research and Management at the Field Scale

Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio and David Lobell

Chapter 10: Nitrogen in the Yaqui Valley: Sources, Transfers, and Consequences

Toby Ahrens, John Harrison, Michael Beman, Peter Jewett, and Pamela Matson

Chapter 11: Water Resources Management in the Yaqui Valley

Gerrit Schoups, Lee Addams, David S. Battisti, Ellen McCullough, and José Luis Minjares

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 12: Lessons Learned

Pamela Matson, Rosamond Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio

References

Contributors

Index.