Abstract

Saving the Land

The article presents information about the agricultural movement, United Nations Environmental Program. As its name implies, the movement intends to create a lasting agriculture, one that is largely independent of the diminishing resource of fossil fuel, that does not destroy, as conventional industrial agriculture does, the human and natural resources upon which it depends. Sustainable agriculture emphasizes the use of internal resources-the natural intelligence of human and biological systems- rather than the external inputs that characterize conventional agriculture. The movement is a response to the global industrialization of farming that has taken place over the past century, particularly the Green Revolution, which has eroded the genetic pool and created a globally uniform agriculture.