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'''Agro-industry''', the dominant agricultural paradigm in the 21st century, is the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food, fiber and energy using modern equipment, [[agro-chemicals]] and industrial methods.
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'''Agro-industry''', the dominant agricultural paradigm in the 21st century, is the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food, fiber and energy using modern equipment, [[agro-chemicals]] including [[biocides]] and industrial methods.
  
 
Agro-industrial farming is typically degenerative to it's environment and relies on depleting natural resources such as energy, [[soil fertility]] and [[biodiversity]].  
 
Agro-industrial farming is typically degenerative to it's environment and relies on depleting natural resources such as energy, [[soil fertility]] and [[biodiversity]].  

Revision as of 19:39, 12 January 2015

Agro-industry, the dominant agricultural paradigm in the 21st century, is the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food, fiber and energy using modern equipment, agro-chemicals including biocides and industrial methods.

Agro-industrial farming is typically degenerative to it's environment and relies on depleting natural resources such as energy, soil fertility and biodiversity.

Western Reductionist thinking

Economy of scale