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5. Circular Agriculture

Authors : Dora Marinova, Diana Bogueva

Published in: Food in a Planetary Emergency

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

Circular agriculture is defined. Five underlying principles, namely regeneration, land-effectiveness, integrated management, focus on quality food and localisation, are outlined together with comments on what is necessary for a transition to circularity from the current linear agricultural model. The overall message of the chapter is that it is possible to provide quality food while recycling nutrients within agriculture to feed not only humans but also the soil, its microbes and other living species on this planet. Circular agriculture offers most-needed solutions to dealing with the planetary emergency.

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Metadata
Title
Circular Agriculture
Authors
Dora Marinova
Diana Bogueva
Copyright Year
2022
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7707-6_5

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