Environment Agriculture and Poverty

Contents 1 Environment and agriculture an introduction 2 Poverty-environment interactions in agriculture 3 Environmental indicators for agriculture methods and results 4 Smallholder agriculture and the environment in a changing global context 5 Use of environmental lifecycle assessment to evaluate alternative agricultural production 6 Impact of agriculture on the environment 7 Precision agriculture and environmental quality challenges for research and education 8 Nitrates agriculture and environment 9 Economic importance of agriculture for poverty reduction 10 Urban agriculture and poverty reduction 11 Urban agriculture for sustainable poverty alleviation and food security 12 Land reform agriculture and poverty reduction 13 Agriculture and environment interlink with poverty dimension 14 Changes in global agriculture a framework for diagnosing ecosystem effects 16 Attacking poverty while improving the environment Bibliography IndexAgriculture can either sustain or degrade the environment The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has documented agriculture?s main negative effects on land and freshwater as well as the importance of agricultural landscapes in providing products for human sustenance supporting biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services Agricultural biodiversity refers to the variety of living species that are important to agriculture It comprises the diversity of genetic resources eg different varieties and breeds and species used in agriculture directly or indirectly including species that support production eg soil organisms and pollinators and broader ecosystems within which agriculture takes places eg pastoral forest and aquatic as well as the diversity of these agro-ecosystems themselves 280 pp.…