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Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are
toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer.
Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce
the risk of the ?blue-baby? syndrome in infants and of stomach
cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous
oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the
world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and
global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and
Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of
agriculture and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the
relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the
effects of pollution on agriculture itself ? crop yields are
depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from
all sources. The authors offer solutions to these apparently
overwhelming problems, and describe existing technology which would
allow us to deal with them. Originally published in 1991
?The Green Revolution? of the 60s and 70s produced immense gains in
food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge
problems in the ?post-revolutionary? era: farmers with small or
marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers;
intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to
environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of
diminishing returns from intensive and intensively chemical
agricultural production. What is needed is a new approach, equally
revolutionary, but different in its ideas and style. The authors
set out what they mean by ?sustainable? agriculture in the new era
and look at the effects of international economic restraints and of
national policies on the kind of development they see as necessary.
They chart a path for sustainable livelihoods for Third World
farmers enmeshed by forces outside their control. They describe
methods of evaluating and resolving the tough trade-offs all levels
of intervention, from international trade down to the individual
farm. This book cannot provide all the answers, but it does
indicate what international conditions we need to be aware of, what
national policies we need to advocate and what approaches at the
local level we need to adopt to ensure the goal of agricultural
sustainability. Originally published in 1990
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are
toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer.
Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce
the risk of the blue-baby syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer
in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and
the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's
problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global
warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third
World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture
and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the relative
dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of
pollution on agriculture itself crop yields are depressed and
livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources.
The authors offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming
problems, and describe existing technology which would allow us to
deal with them. Originally published in 1991
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains
in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge
problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or
marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers;
intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to
environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of
diminishing returns from intensive and intensively chemical
agricultural production. What is needed is a new approach, equally
revolutionary, but different in its ideas and style. The authors
set out what they mean by 'sustainable' agriculture in the new era
and look at the effects of international economic restraints and of
national policies on the kind of development they see as necessary.
They chart a path for sustainable livelihoods for Third World
farmers enmeshed by forces outside their control. They describe
methods of evaluating and resolving the tough trade-offs all levels
of intervention, from international trade down to the individual
farm. This book cannot provide all the answers, but it does
indicate what international conditions we need to be aware of, what
national policies we need to advocate and what approaches at the
local level we need to adopt to ensure the goal of agricultural
sustainability. Originally published in 1990
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