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    The earth's environmental woes: is agriculture part of the problem or part of the solution? (Featured Article)

    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 1994
  2. Library Resource

    The earth's environmental woes: is agriculture part of the problem or part of the solution? (Featured Article)

    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 1994
  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1994
    Asia

    Intensive double or triple monocropping of rice has caused degradation of the paddy micro environment and reductions in rice yield growth in many irrigated areas in Asia. Problems include increased pest infestation, mining of soil micronutrients, reductions in nutrient-carrying capacity of the soil, build-up of soil toxicity, and salinity and waterlogging.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1994
    Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Africa, India, Bangladesh, China

    A large body of literature makes the argument that commercialization of agriculture has mainly negative effects on the employment, incomes, food production and consumption, health, and nutrition of the poor. In Commercialization of Agriculture, Economic Development, and Nutrition, Joachim von Braun and Eileen Kennedy find that the conclusion that commercialization of agriculture is generally bad for nutrition is flawed.

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