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

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations AB ecolabel (France) AFD alternate flooding and drying ALPS Accountability, Learning and Plan ...

xiv Agriculture and Food Systems IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer IASO International Association for the Study o ...

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xv vCJD variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease WCD World Commission on Dams WP water productivity ...

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Editorial Introduction to Volume III Jules Pretty Food Systems Overview Recent advances in aggregate farm productivity have only ...

2 Agriculture and Food Systems As a result of these transitions towards calorie-rich diets, obesity, hypertension and type II di ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume III 3 as sustainable agriculture, with its need for increased knowledge, management skills and ...

4 Agriculture and Food Systems reasonable means. Yet it is increasingly being recognized that the social and envi- ronmental cos ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume III 5 importance of hired labour makes it difficult to see it always succeed. Its uptake pat- t ...

6 Agriculture and Food Systems challenge is best met by actively engaging rice farmers and trainers, from the out- set, in impro ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume III 7 Agricultural development seeks to improve peoples’ lives, or crop yields, or water qualit ...

8 Agriculture and Food Systems And diverse approaches are indeed being developed and extended across many dif- ferent environmen ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume III 9 Islanders and Iceland, native Eskimos (as they were then known), and the people of rural ...

10 Agriculture and Food Systems analyses whether Americans overeat. A review of the structures and actors in the US food industr ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume III 11 farm to plate transport costs, or ‘food miles’, are substantial. In addition, there is g ...

12 Agriculture and Food Systems Model’ as the official policy – an agriculture that focuses on technologies that substitute loca ...

Part I The Global Food System ...

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1 The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement Jules Pretty But when the motor of a tractor stops, it is as dead as the one ...

16 The Global Food System communities. Much the same is true in rural environments. Jobs have been lost, environments polluted, ...