Book Description
Explores how agricultural policy can be designed to not only serve agricultural and economic objectives, but also environmental ones.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
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ISBN : 9264033807
Explores how agricultural policy can be designed to not only serve agricultural and economic objectives, but also environmental ones.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher :
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
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ISBN : 9264040854
Comprehensive, up to date and internationally comparable data on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries.
Author : Paul Faeth
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2001-03-13
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ISBN : 926418855X
This book is the first comprehensive study to review and take stock in OECD countries of progress in developing indicators to measure the environmental performance of agriculture.
Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136529276
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
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ISBN : 9264319832
This report updates the data published in the 2015 OECD Compendium of Agri-environmental Indicators to present a summary of the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries as of end-2015. It also includes new and innovative material to further strengthen its relevance as a reference document.
Author : Margaret Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136468242
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role of PA in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits. The technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing, and the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal delivery of fertilizers, water and pesticides to crops only when and where these are required. As a result, it is shown that both food production and resource efficiency can be maximized, without waste or damage to the environment, such as can occur from excessive fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity describe some technicalities about PA, but the overall aim is to introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the environment and economy. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Author : Gwendolen DeBoe
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Page : 57 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2020
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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
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ISBN : 9264186212
Provides comprehensive data and analysis on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, covering soil, water, air and biodiversity and looking at recent policy developments in all 34 countries.