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.
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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.
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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.