Sustainability in Agriculture (eBook)

Ronald E Hester is at the University of York, UK Roy M Harrison OBE is at the University of Birmingham, UK

Sustainability In Agriculture: Recent Progress And Emergent Challenges: 1: Recent Progress on Food Production; 2: What is Agricultural Sustainability?; 3: The Environmental Challenge; 4: How Much Pesticide is Used?; 5: The Benefits of Integrated Pest Management (IPM); 6: Current Evidence of Pesticide Reductions at Country Level; 7: The Wider Policy Context for Agricultural Sustainability; 8: Areas of Debate and Disagreement; References; Ecological Risks Of Transgenic Plants: A Framework For Assessment And Conceptual Issues; 1: Introduction; 2: The Products of Agricultural Biotechnology; 3: Using Risk Analysis to Evaluate Transgenic Crops; 4: Ecological Hazards and Today's Transgenic Crops; 5: Ecological Exposure Pathways for Health and Socio-Economic Hazards; 6: Strategies in Ecological Risk Management; 7: Issues in Governance with Respect to Risk; References; Gm Pest-Resistant Crops: Assessing Environmental Impacts On Non-Target Organisms; 1: Introduction; 2: Possible Risks And Benefits Of Pest-Resistant GM Crops For Above And Below Ground Agro-Ecosystems; 3: Discussion of GM crop impacts; References; Sustainable Land Management: A Challenge For Modern Agriculture; 1: The Agricultural Origins of Sustainable Development; 2: Agriculture: A Drive Towards More Sustainable Land Management; 3: Making Agriculture More Sustainable; 4: Principles For Making Agriculture Sustainable; 5: Science for Sustainable Agriculture; References; UK Environmental-Economic Consequences Of Decoupled Cap Payments; 1: Introduction; 2: Subsidies and the Environment; 3: CAP, Decoupling and the Environment; 4: Case Studies of Changes to More Extensive Farming; 5: Implications for Farming Policy; 6: Conclusions; References; Globalizing Vulnerability: The Impacts Of Unfair Trade On Developing Country Agriculture; 1: Introduction: Linking the Global to the Local; 2: An Overview of International Trade and Less Developed Country Agriculture; 3: Impacts of Unfair Trade on Developing Country Agriculture; 4: Countries and Commodities: Sugar and southern Africa; 5: Conclusions: Re-Connecting the Global and the Local; References; Free Trade In Food: Moral And Physical Hazards; 1: Introduction; 2: Free Trade - Theory and Reality; 3: The Moral Hazards of Free Trade; 4: The Physical Hazards of Free Trade; 5: The Environmental Hazards of Free Trade; 6: Reforming the Global Economy; 7: Conclusion; References