Sara J Scherr: 3 books
Farming with Nature
The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of “ecoagriculture” landscapes...
Buyer, Regulator, and Enabler: The Government's Role in Ecosystem Services Markets
International Lessons Learned for Payments for Ecological Services in the People’s Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This paper was originally produced for the "International Conference on Payments for Environmental Services," held in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China on 6-7 September 2009, and jointly hosted by the People's Republic of China's National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry...
Ecoagriculture
Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and developmexamine the idea that...