Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2006-10-23

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9264022570

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Explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates.


Organic Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Organic Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2003-06-04

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9264101519

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This publication reveals that organic agriculture is disadvantaged by current agricultural support policies, and the proliferation of standards and labels has sometimes confused consumers and impeded trade.


Water Quality and Agriculture

Water Quality and Agriculture

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Publisher: IWA Publishing

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1780401329

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This report on Water Quality and Agriculture examines the linkages between agriculture and water quality. It discusses the overall trends and outlook for agriculture and water quality in OECD countries; describes recent actions by policy makers to address water quality issues in agriculture; and provides a set of recommendations for countries to meet the challenge of improving agricultural water quality.


Sustainable Intensification

Sustainable Intensification

Author: Jules N. Pretty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1136529276

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Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.


OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in China

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in China

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9264085297

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The expansion of agricultural production in China has been remarkable, but at the expense of the sustainable use of its natural resources. To counter this, as well as to face problems due to rising labour costs and a rapidly ageing rural population, agricultural production must concentrate on a ...