and medicines—to name but a few agribusinesses. Unfortunately, not all agribusiness firms favor “green” practices or efforts to enhance resource sustainability—and
one certainly could argue that an agribusiness firm can be profitable by being
insensitive to such practices—but failure to embrace a systemic approach, failure to
integrate natural resources management into the broader construct of agribusiness,
hints at a catastrophic threat to agribusiness firms. Therefore, by logical extension
and because of vested interests, natural resources including, for example, managed
and non-managed stocks of fish and forests as well as renewable energy sources
such as hydro, fuel cell, solar, wave, tide, and wind harnessing, all are germane to
core agribusinesses and their welfare.