Advance Sowing has 5 major principles: The rationale behind the method is to produce crops without simplifying the biodiversity.
Advance sow relies on complementarity of plant/animal interactions to produce biomass that can be utilised directly for human consumption or fed to animals.
By using No Kill in areas that are already grasslands or are arid or highly erodible, grain can be produced without risking ecological damage.
Flannery confuses the method by including the use of ploughs and also of the term pastures rather than grasslands that the crop is sown into.
He proposes that the system has possibilities to promote "coevolution's capacity to increase biological productivity and ecosystem stability".