[Title]: World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices
[Author(s) / Editor(s)]: Jason Clay
[Publisher]: Island Press
[Year Published]: 2004
[ISBN]: 9781559633703
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Book Description: World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions around the world, and employing statistics from a range of authoritative sources including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization,the author examines twenty of the world?s major crops, including beef, coffee, corn, rice, rubber, shrimp, sorghum, tea, and tobacco. For each crop, he offers comparative information including:
With maps of major commodity production areas worldwide, the book represents the first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts.
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