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Published online 6 February 2007
Published in Agron J 99:373-376 (2007)
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2006.0104
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Potential for a New Generation of Biodiversity in Agroecosystems of the Future

Frederick L. Kirschenmann*

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Iowa State Univ., 209 Curtiss Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1050

* Corresponding author (leopold1{at}iastate.edu)

Received for publication April 4, 2006. Industrial agriculture, which is grounded in the industrial principles—specialization, simplification and concentration—that inform all industrial economies, has been exceptionally successful for the past half century. But, as we enter the 21st century this modern agriculture will be facing a number of serious challenges that may force the abandonment of these principles in favor of a more diversified, complex system of food and fiber production.




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