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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)