Abstract
Agronomy is an integrative science born as a synthesis of knowledge coming from biological and physico-chemical sciences, agricultural practices as changed by technological development and higher education schools. The knowledge obtained was very successfully introduced in agricultural practice. The success of agriculture and the negative impact of some agricultural practices as well as the specialization in science brought Agronomy into and identity crisis. The systems approach is presented as a tool to return to the future the integrative tradition of Agronomy.
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Pinto, P.A. (2007). Agronomy: Tradition and Future. In: Pereira, M.S. (eds) A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_21
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