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o the questions of whether agroparks contribute to sustainab.This book is the result of several years of expedition into the development of metropolitan FoodClusters. The author‘s fascination for the agricultural landscapes in and around metropolises led him to the conclusion that improving the effi

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Book 2011al landscapes in and around metropolises led him to the conclusion that improving the efficiency of agriculture is the most effective way to safeguard the quality of such landscapes. The wasteful modes of production developed in the past 150 years have led to a serious decline in both the surface ar

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The network society,ledge and creativity are crucial characteristics for people and communities to trigger even more progress. Progress in the sense of less poverty, longer lives, better food and a better environment, for more and more people who no longer live under the daily threat of war and total chaos. That is a p

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Agriculture in the network society, process, can also be summed up as a number of ‘mega-trends’. The mega-trends are described here insofar as they are relevant and apply as parameters for the special development of agriculture that is the central tenet of this book, i.e. agriculture in the network society. . Global Age. .

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Research by design on agroparks, to efectively satisfy the nature and scale of the need [for food and raw materials], a combination of activities and types of process is necessary. Combinations of vegetable-based and animal production in the form of “new mixed farms”, primarily focused on energy efficiency, will emerge on a greate