Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

1 A Fable for Tomorrow Rachel Carson There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with ...

16 Agricultural Harm to the Environment bled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that h ...

A Fable for Tomorrow 17 partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world – the very nature of its life. Strontium ...

18 Agricultural Harm to the Environment in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil – all th ...

A Fable for Tomorrow 19 the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects. The problem whose ...

20 Agricultural Harm to the Environment The importation of plants is the primary agent in the modern spread of spe- cies, for an ...

A Fable for Tomorrow 21 harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poi- sons, without their consen ...

2 Reality Cheques Jules Pretty The Real Costs of Food When we buy or bake our daily bread, do we ever wonder about how much it r ...

Reality Cheques 23 and water pollution are transferred away from farmers, and so not paid by those producing the food nor includ ...

24 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Wise words from eminent politicians and scientists. But lost on the altar of progress. U ...

Reality Cheques 25 As agricultural systems shape the very assets on which they rely for inputs, a vital feedback loop occurs fro ...

26 Agricultural Harm to the Environment are not included in prices, they distort the market by encouraging activities that are c ...

Reality Cheques 27 Using a similar framework of analysis, the external costs in the US amount to nearly £13 billion per year.^14 ...

28 Agricultural Harm to the Environment chronic effects, such as in cancer causation, weak monitoring systems, and misdi- agnose ...

Reality Cheques 29 capture nutrients that run off fields, provide flood protection and are important cultural features of the la ...

30 Agricultural Harm to the Environment There are more than 2 million hectares of paddy rice in Japan, and each of these hectare ...

Reality Cheques 31 dead-zone, an area of 5000–18,000km^2 of sea that has received so much nutrient input that all aquatic life h ...

32 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Control, 76 million people in the US fall ill each year from foodborne illness, of whom ...

Reality Cheques 33 30 per cent for farm animals, and 30 per cent for domestic pets and horses. Only one-fifth of the antibiotics ...

34 Agricultural Harm to the Environment national benefits of the order of £200–600 million. Expressed on a per hectare basis, th ...