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World agriculture and the environment : a commodity-by-commodity guide to impacts and practices

Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions around the world, Jason Clay presents an assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems.
eBook, English, ©2004
Island Press, Washington, D.C., ©2004
1 online resource (xii, 570 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781417539802, 9781559633673, 9781559633703, 9781610910156, 9781597269506, 1417539801, 1559633670, 1559633700, 161091015X, 1597269506
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Agricultural trends and realities
Agriculture and the environment
Coffee
Tea
Cocoa
Orange juice
Sugarcane
Soybeans
Palm oil
Bananas
Cashews
Cotton
Wood pulp
Rubber
Tobacco
Wheat
Rice
Corn (maize)
Sorghum
Cassava
Beef
Shrimp
Salmon
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English