{"product_id":"new-roots-for-agriculture","title":"New Roots For Agriculture","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword,\" writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is \"the failure of success.\" As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJackson''s major solution calls for the development of plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and re-newing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil-fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. His new way of raising crops, by working with the soil''s natural systems, would keep the world''s bread-basket producing perpetually.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318734659966,"sku":"NW9780803275621","price":12.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780803275621.jpg?v=1778725725","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/new-roots-for-agriculture","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}