[PDF] World Agriculture And The Environment eBook

Author : Jason Clay
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 161091015X

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World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions around the world, and employing statistics from a range of authoritative sources including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the author examines twenty of the world’s major crops, including beef, coffee, corn, rice, rubber, shrimp, sorghum, tea, and tobacco. For each crop, he offers comparative information including: • a “fast facts” overview section that summarizes key data for the crop • main producing and consuming countries • main types of production • market trend information and market chain analyses • major environmental impacts • management strategies and best practices • key contacts and references With maps of major commodity production areas worldwide, the book represents the first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts.

Author : Jason Clay
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"The first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts, including maps of the production areas for each of 22 major commodities".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136529276

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Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.

Author : Jelle Bruinsma
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
ISBN : 1844070077

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.)
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781585762378

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Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.

Author : Martin L. Parry
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN :

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After describing the effects of climate change on agriculture, estimating the impacts on plant and animal growth and looking at the geographical limits to different types of farming, the author considers a range of possible ways to adapt agriculture and so to mitigate what could otherwise become a disaster

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813166810

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The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

Author : William R Cline
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881324809

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How will global warming affect developing countries, which rely heavily on agriculture as a source of economic growth? William Cline asserts that developing countries have more at risk, such as their production capacity, than industrial countries as global warming worsens. Using general circulation models, Cline boldly examines 2071–99 to forecast the effects of global warming and its economic impact into the next decade. This detailed study outlines existing studies on climate change; Cline finds the Stern Report for the UK government's estimates most reliable; estimates projected changes in temperature, precipitation, and agricultural capacity; and concludes with policy recommendations. Cline finds that agricultural production in developing countries may fall an average of 16 percent, and if global warming progresses at its current rate, India's agricultural capacity could fall as much as 40 percent. Thus, policymakers should address this phenomenon now before the world's developing countries are adversely and irreversibly affected.

Author : Khalid Rehman Hakeem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319231626

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Meeting the world’s food security challenge will require a multi-national, collaborative effort to integrate the best research from science, engineering and socioeconomics so that technological advances can bring benefits where they are most needed. The present book covers the effect of major environmental problems on crop production and how to cope with these issues for sustainable agriculture and improvements of crops. The world’s population is predicted to hit 9.6 Billion by 2050, up from today’s total of nearly 7.3 Billion, and with it food demand is predicted to increase substantially. The post-war ‘second agricultural revolution’ in developed countries, and the ‘green revolution’ in developing nations in the mid- 1960s converted agricultural practices and elevated crop yields spectacularly, but the outcome is levelling off and will not meet projected demand. Simultaneously, crop production is affected by many other factors, including industrial pollution, overuse of fertilizers and insecticides, heavy metal and radiation stresses etc. It has been noted that many pests are becoming resistant to insecticides. Estimates vary, but around 25% of crops can be lost to pests and diseases. Climate change associated with agriculture is also a global issue. Agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gases and is estimated to account for 10-12% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the issues highlighted are global problems and are addressed thoroug hly in this work.

Author : Ronald E. Hester
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1849733856

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This volume examines the factors currently affecting agriculture on a global scale. Land use, soil quality, and the inherent production of greenhouse gasses by agriculture each receive their own chapters.