Sustainability in Agriculture
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Author(s): R. Hester and R. Harrison
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854042016
Format: hardback
130pp
Price: £45.00
Review Date: 06 December 2005
Review: This volume brings together many of the key issues that impact on agricultural sustainability in order to throw light on the subject and promote informed rational discussion on topics that often generate heated debate. There are chapters on: sustainability in agriculture – recent progress and emergent challenges; ecological risks of transgenic plants; GM pest-resistant crops – assessing environmental impacts on non-target organisms; sustainable land management; OK environmental–economic consequences of decoupled CAP payments; globalizing vulnerability – the impacts of unfair trade on developing country agriculture; and free trade in food – moral and physical hazards.