Subject(s): Social aspects -- Agricultural ecology. -- Agrarian and rural perspective : Ecological literacy, Amish perspective, creating social capital -- Agroecological perspectives : External costs of agricultural production in US, pesticides- improving ecosystem health, agroecosystem, green revolution -- Social perspective : Reversals, institutions and change, Hawkesbury experience, socail capital and collective management of resources, beta/gamma science for dealing with ecological rationality, low-toxicity integrated pest management -- Perspectives from industrialized countries : Landscapes lost and found, farm as natural habitat, diseases and food, foodshed -- Perspectives from developing countries : Agriculture for new employment, soil recuperation in central America, sustainable rural life and agroeology in Brazil, agroforestry in Africa, reducing food poverty by increasing agricultural sustainability