Ecological agriculture: Principles, practices, and constraints

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Magdoff, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Crop management; Ecological agriculture; Farm subsidies; Soil management; Third World agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROECOLOGY; COVER CROP; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547443497     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170507001846     Document Type: Article

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