Hi guys, today I will write about Miguel Altieri. He is an agronomist and entomologist. He studied in Antumapu! Miguel Altieri was born in 1968 and he is fifty years today.
Actually Altieri is an academic of agroecology at the University of California, in the USA. I admire him because is an advocate of sustainable agriculture and is highly critical of large agribusiness corporations such as Cargill, Monsanto and ADM. He has conducted most of his research in California and Chile working clasely with farmers and workers to implement principles of integrated pest management, intercropping, cover cropping, crop-field border vegetation manipulation, and other sustainable practices of biological control. He has been teaching courses in agroecology, agroforestry and urban agriculture in United States.Altieri is the author of more than 200 publications, and numerous books including Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity, Pest Management in Agroecosystems and Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture. I really recomended to you read any this books!
I think we need more agronomists like that, because he cares about the planet and he tries to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture. I would feel very lucky to go to his class, it is my impossible dream hahaha.
See you in the next post. :)
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