@inproceedings{9b93d8f298c0434fab2114a1251bed26,
title = "Computational agroecology: Sustainable food ecosystem design",
abstract = "We propose a new domain for sociotechnical system design: creating new ecosystems for food production that are sustainable while producing high yields. Drawing on the field of agroecology, we discuss techniques for allowing a range of users to design sustainable food ecosystems that can overcome the environmental costs of industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture, relying on declining reserves of fossil fuels and generating increasingly costly externalities, is unsustainable. Agroecology cannot scale until practitioners have access to detailed knowledge of local conditions and appropriate agricultural strategies. This paper reviews the agricultural and sustainability challenges that motivate our research. It describes design problems that must be addressed to scale agroecology. We discuss our initial work, and sketch a program of research we believe will contribute to global food security.",
keywords = "Agroecology, Sustainable HCI",
author = "Barath Raghavan and Bonnie Nardi and Lovell, {Sarah T.} and Juliet Norton and Bill Tomlinson and Patterson, {Donald J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Authors.; 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016 ; Conference date: 07-05-2016 Through 12-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2851581.2892577",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "423--435",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2016",
address = "United States",
}