World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with pre

"The first truly global portrait of agricultural production patterns and environmental impacts, including maps of the production areas for each of 22 major comm

This volume examines the factors currently affecting agriculture on a global scale. Land use, soil quality, and the inherent production of greenhouse gasses by

This book will be of significant value to students of soil, crop, environmental and pollution sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

Originally published in 1990, this book analysed the sensitivity of the world food system and looked at the variety of ways in which it would be affected by cli