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Agricultural
employment: The next five years
Dr. M. Asaduzzaman
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The
State of Food & Agriculture 2002
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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.
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Sustainable
Agriculture (Overview prepared for Rio+5: From Agenda
to Action)
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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
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Global
farming systems
FAO's new "agricultural
atlas" will help the World Bank target investment to
relieve hunger and rural poverty
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Comparative
Study of Real Costs and Benefits of Different Agricultural
Systems in Selected Villages in South India
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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
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The state
of food insecurity in the world
- Full
SOFI report in pdf (1 MB) - SOFI
summary in pdf (376 K)
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Agriculture and climate change: A prairie perspective(Adobe
Acrobat PDF)
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