Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. This volume argues that instead of changing the environment, we can change the adaptation of the plants that we grow in it.
Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. These practices become increasingly tenuous as they exhaust our supplies of fossil fuels, deplete aquifers and raise concerns about the safety of food and the overall effect of agriculture on the quality of rural life.
