ABSTRACT

This chapter provides practical examples that illustrate the relevance of the concepts introduced in Chapter 2 to the challenges faced by scientists working in the field of sustainable agriculture. In fact, it is important to have a feeling of practical implications of complexity, in terms of operation of scientific protocols of analysis, before getting into an analysis of the challenges faced by those willing to do things in a different way (Chapters 4 and 5), and before exploring innovative concepts that can be used to develop new analytical approaches (Part 2).