Abstract
The transition to sustainable growth in agricultural production during the 21st century will take place within the context of a transition to a stable population and a possible transition to a stable level of material consumption. If the world fails to successfully navigate a transition to sustainable growth in agricultural production, the failure will be due more to a failure in the area of institutional innovation than to resource and environmental constraints.
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SustainabilityAgricultureContext (archaeology)Transition (genetics)Production (economics)Natural resource economicsConsumption (sociology)Agricultural productivityPopulation growthPopulationBusinessResource (disambiguation)Environmental resource managementEconomicsGeographyChemistryComputer scienceEcologyBiologyMicroeconomicsSocial science
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- 1999
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 5960-5967
- Citations
- 128
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Vernon W. Ruttan
(1999).
The transition to agricultural sustainability.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, 96
(11)
, 5960-5967.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.11.5960
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- DOI
- 10.1073/pnas.96.11.5960