alternative agriculture

基本解释

Alternative agriculture against large-scale use of agriculture chemicals, and it tries to reduce dependence on large industrial economy.
替代农业反对大量使用农业化学物，它尽量减少对大工业经济的依赖。
Modern agriculture use petrol as its energy, which ignores the destruction to the environment, so in the late 1970s, scholars began to put forwards alternative agriculture.
现代农业将石油作为能源，这忽略了对环境的破坏，因此在19世纪70年代末期，学者开始提出替代农业。
After review of some relating concepts including nature agriculture, oil agriculture as well as alternative agriculture, this paper made a first understanding of low-carbon agriculture.
通过对低碳农业、自然农业、石油农业、替代农业等概念的梳理，形成对低碳农业概念的初步认识。

"There was a sense with the donor community, as well as the government, that this particular natural resource was something that was so attractive, desirable and generally worth protection that it needed to be made an example of, " says Loren Stoddard, who directs USAID's office of alternative development and agriculture in Afghanistan.
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