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

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 17 1991). Water systems have become increasingly contaminated. Nitrate in wate ...

18 The Global Food System Energy consumption by agriculture A largely hidden cost of modern agriculture is the fossil fuel it mu ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 19 In industrialized countries the trend has been towards the substitution of ...

20 The Global Food System through its consumption of energy produced by fossil fuel burning. For each kilo- gramme of cereal fro ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 21 natural enemies that control pests. They can produce new pests, by killing ...

22 The Global Food System started subsidizing pesticides and in 1977 over 1 million tonnes of rice were lost, enough to feed som ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 23 DBCP, which causes infertility in humans and the herbicide, paraquat, which ...

24 The Global Food System tending not to seek medical treatment – as is also the case in the North (Dinham, 1993). Most data are ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 25 unreported by farmers (Rola and Pingali, 1993; Marquez et al, 1992; Rola, 1 ...

26 The Global Food System Table 1.3 Net benefit and health costs of four pest management strategies in lowland irrigated rice, P ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 27 In Britain, a major cause of soil erosion has been the shift in recent year ...

28 The Global Food System More terracing and more erosion Despite decades of effort, soil and water conservation programmes have ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 29 works rapidly deteriorate, accelerating erosion instead of reducing it. If ...

30 The Global Food System Recent project efforts Graded and contour bunds developed for large-scale farming in the US are widely ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 31 addicted to subsidies which normally come as part of development projects.’ ...

32 The Global Food System Farmers themselves recognize the value of mixtures. In Indonesia, farmers in rainfed conditions plant ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 33 of calories derived from plants (FAO, 1993; Fowler and Mooney, 1990). The t ...

34 The Global Food System late ripening; fields usually ripened so unevenly that it was impossible to harvest them at one time w ...

The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 35 fallen only to 19, but just two were traditional (Cordova et al, 1981). Som ...

36 The Global Food System Recent responses to support farmers When external agencies work closely with farmers to document the v ...