SUSTAINABLE RHIZOSPHERE IMPROVEMENT INNOVATIONS (SRI2)
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has been emphasizing agriculture as 'multifunctional', part of a 'complexity' with commodity as well as non-commodity outputs that impacts not just economics but also human or social wellbeing, equity, and environmental sustainability.
Playing a responsible role in the future of agriculture now requires a more robust set of tools to manage the complexity of sustainable farming. Agriculture, as a system, has a myriad of interdependent subsystems sensitive to climatic, energy, ecological, and economical impingements. Over the past few decades there is an emerging movement of farming for staple crops involving a socio-economic shift from over-reliance on biotechnological advances of the Green Revolution towards an agro-ecology that offers more evergreen sustainable agro-solutions, particularly exploring new potentials in the rhizosphere. These shifts build upon modern science, capitalizing particularly on what is becoming known in the realms of soil biology and soil ecology.
RHIZOSPHERE
The rhizosphere (root zone) is our next frontier. Improving the rhizosphere will produce healthier, pest-resistant crops, higher yields (organic food gets better price as well), furthermore saves water and mitigates greenhouse gasses that contributes to global warming.
SUSTAINABLE RHIZOSPHERE IMPROVEMENT INNOVATIONS (SRI2)
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has been emphasizing agriculture as 'multifunctional', part of a 'complexity' with commodity as well as non-commodity outputs that impacts not just economics but also human or social wellbeing, equity, and environmental sustainability.
Playing a responsible role in the future of agriculture now requires a more robust set of tools to manage the complexity of sustainable farming. Agriculture, as a system, has a myriad of interdependent subsystems sensitive to climatic, energy, ecological, and economical impingements. Over the past few decades there is an emerging movement of farming for staple crops involving a socio-economic shift from over-reliance on biotechnological advances of the Green Revolution towards an agro-ecology that offers more evergreen sustainable agro-solutions, particularly exploring new potentials in the rhizosphere. These shifts build upon modern science, capitalizing particularly on what is becoming known in the realms of soil biology and soil ecology.
SUSTAINABLE RHIZOSPHERE IMPROVEMENT INNOVATIONS (SRI2)
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has been emphasizing agriculture as 'multifunctional', part of a 'complexity' with commodity as well as non-commodity outputs that impacts not just economics but also human or social wellbeing, equity, and environmental sustainability.
Playing a responsible role in the future of agriculture now requires a more robust set of tools to manage the complexity of sustainable farming. Agriculture, as a system, has a myriad of interdependent subsystems sensitive to climatic, energy, ecological, and economical impingements. Over the past few decades there is an emerging movement of farming for staple crops involving a socio-economic shift from over-reliance on biotechnological advances of the Green Revolution towards an agro-ecology that offers more evergreen sustainable agro-solutions, particularly exploring new potentials in the rhizosphere. These shifts build upon modern science, capitalizing particularly on what is becoming known in the realms of soil biology and soil ecology.
