9 Sustainable Agriculture. Pages 163-184.

Keywords: productivity, stability, sustainability, equitability, effect of the green revolution on agroecosystem indicators, schematic of a rice field as an agroecosystem, hierarchy of agroecosystems, the dynamics of agricultural sustainability, agricultural technologies that have high potential sustainability, integrated pest management, sustainability of a shifting cultivation system, system properties of the home garden when compared with a rice field, productivities of four Brazilian Amerindian livelihoods