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A Fresh Look at Energy, Materials, and Labor in Agriculture
Provedor de dados: 17
Autores: Aaron W. Baum; Tadeusz Patzek; Martin Bender; Steve Renich; Wes Jackson.
An understanding of agriculture&amp;#x27;s energy, material, and labor requirements is essential for achieving economic and ecological sustainability, and for assessing the effectiveness of relevant policy decisions (biofuel subsidies, regulations, labeling, etc.). Previous studies of energy, materials, and labor use in farming have been based on either unverified voluntary reporting or test plots, rather than on the high-resolution measurements of mass and energy flows. Here we present a recursive analysis of 1.25 million data points describing in unprecedented detail the resource transactions on a 60 ha farm functioning for over 6 years. This analysis highlights the importance of accounting for all types of materials, as well as capital equipment,...
Tipo: Manuscript
Palavras-chave: Ecology; Earth &amp; Environment.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4291/version/1