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

Reality Cheques 35 Agriculture’s Carbon Dividend The greatest environmental problem we face anywhere in the world is now climate ...

36 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Americas. These systems of cultivation maintain a permanent or semi-permanent organic co ...

Reality Cheques 37 payment package. Carbon, therefore, represents an important new source of income for farmers, as well as help ...

38 Agricultural Harm to the Environment such as in The Netherlands and Switzerland. A final use for regulations is the des- igna ...

Reality Cheques 39 The Radical Challenge of Integration The substantial external costs of modern agriculture, and the known exte ...

40 Agricultural Harm to the Environment set out its plan for implementation of Agenda 21. This put forward ecological farming, k ...

Reality Cheques 41 skills and resources for the imported inputs. It also emphasizes the diversification of agriculture, oxen to ...

42 Agricultural Harm to the Environment priority was maintaining important positive side effects of upland livestock farm- ing – ...

Reality Cheques 43 Concluding comments In this chapter, I have adopted a fairly narrow economic perspective to set out some of t ...

44 Agricultural Harm to the Environment 7 For more on sustainable agriculture definitions and principles, see Altieri, 1995, 199 ...

Reality Cheques 45 15 The government’s Office of the Director General of Water Services sets industry price levels each 5 years, ...

46 Agricultural Harm to the Environment off the fields. Nor did they stop the emergence livestock feedlots with their massive pr ...

Reality Cheques 47 countries, with some indications that they have increased efficiency and employment. See EEA, 1996, 1999; Smi ...

48 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Conford P (ed). 1988. The Organic Tradition: An Anthology of Writing on Organic Farming. ...

Reality Cheques 49 Ewel K C. 1997. Water quality improvement in wetlands. In Daily G (ed). Nature’s Services: Societal Dependenc ...

50 Agricultural Harm to the Environment Knutson R, Penn J and Flinchbaugh B. 1998. Agricultural and Food Policy, Fourth edition. ...

Reality Cheques 51 Pretty J N and Ball A. 2001. Agricultural Influences on Emissions and Sequestration of Carbon and Emerg- ing ...

52 Agricultural Harm to the Environment van der Bijl G and Bleumink J A. 1997. Naar een Milieubalans van de Agrarische Sector [T ...

3 External Costs of Agricultural Production in the United States Erin M. Tegtmeier and Michael D. Duffy Introduction All agricul ...

54 Agricultural Harm to the Environment market failures, which lead to economic inefficiencies. In an unregulated situation, a p ...