Publication / Report on Agriculture

• Agricultural employment: The next five years
  Dr. M. Asaduzzaman

• The State of Food & Agriculture 2002

• Agriculture's role in climate change
  Agriculture is responsible for an estimated one third of global warming and climate change. It is generally agreed that about 25% of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is produced by agricultural sources, mainly deforestation and the burning of biomass. Most of the methane in the atmosphere comes from domestic ruminants, forest fires, wetland rice cultivation and waste products, while conventional tillage and fertilizer use account for 70% of the nitrous oxides.
   

• Sustainable Agriculture (Overview prepared for Rio+5: From Agenda to Action)
   

• Food Security for a Growing World Population
  This article is a contribution to the current discussion on the interrelationship between food security and world population
   

• Global farming systems
  FAO's new "agricultural atlas" will help the World Bank target investment to relieve hunger and rural poverty
    

• Scientists & Farmers Are Revolutionizing Tropical Hillside Agriculture Goals Are to Raise Incomes, Prevent Ecological Disasters 
  Jacqueline Ashby, Ph.D., research director at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, is available for interviews in Washington D.C. on Friday, October 22nd. Please call 703-820-2244 to schedule time.
   

• Dangerous beauty: Flower farms may threaten workers and the environment
  Flowers are emerging as a stable and very marketable international crop, earning up to five times per acre what fruit crops bring in. To meet the high aesthetic standards of the American market and to kill insects possibly harbored in the plants, growers use any means at their disposal -including banned and unregistered pesticides.
   

• Facing the challenges of the World Food Summit
  Headquarters in June 1999, took two major practical steps towards making the 1996 World Food Summit's (WFS) over-riding goal a feasible attainment. The 1999 session of the CFS endorsed moves to improve means of assessment, and monitoring and reporting capacities - assessing the conditions that create food insecurity, and monitoring and reporting progress in cutting the number of undernourished people.
   

• Comparative Study of Real Costs and Benefits of Different Agricultural Systems in Selected Villages in South India
  

• Environmental Indicators for Agriculture - 2001
  Volume 3: Methods and Results : Overall the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries over the last 10 to 15 years has been mixed.
  An executive summary of this report is freely available as a PDF file 1.2Mb
   

• The state of food insecurity in the world
  - Full SOFI report in pdf (1 MB) - SOFI summary in pdf (376 K)
   

• Agriculture and climate change: A prairie perspective(Adobe Acrobat PDF)