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Food and Agriculture > General Information
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| Title | | | | Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws |
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| Author | | | | Jasper Womach |
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| Abstract | | | | Comprehensive glossary of terms, laws, programs and acronyms pertaining to agriculture.
Produced by the Congressional Research Service Report, this exhaustive glossary (859 kb)
has been broken up into 26 web pages, accessible through the main page. Emphasis is on
basic and specialized terms and government programs. |
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Glossary |
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| Affiliation | | | | Congressional Research Service |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.cnie.org/nle/AgGlossary/AgGlossary.htm |
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| Title | | | | An exploratory model of the impact of rapid climate change on the world food situation |
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| Author | | | | Grechen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich |
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| Abstract | | | | A simple, globally aggregated, stochastic-simulation model was constructed to examine the
effects of rapid climatic change on agriculture and the human population. The model calculates
population size and the production, consumption and storage of grain under different climate
scenarios over a 20-year projection time. In most scenarios, either an optimistic baseline
annual increase of agricultural output of 1.7% or a more pessimistic appraisal of 0.9% was
used. The rate of natural increase of the human population exclusive of excess hunger-related
deaths was set at 1.7% per year and climatic changes with both negative and positive impacts
on agriculture were assessed." |
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Technical Report |
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| Affiliation | | | | Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University |
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| URL: | | | | http://dieoff.org/page102.htm |
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| Title | | | | Farm-level Information in Policy-Making and Planning for Sustainable Development |
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| Author | | | | Brian Hardaker |
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| Abstract | | | | 1996 extracted from a longer paper notes that: Farming activities everywhere should be
conducted so as not to deplete the resource base or degrade the environment. Amongst
actions required is better understanding of how farm households respond to policy signals and
to use this knowledge in formulating policies. Improved methods are needed to feed relevant
community and farm-household information into the policy making process." |
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Report Summary |
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| Affiliation | | | | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/EPdirect/EPan0002.htm |
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| Title | | | | Food security within environmental limits |
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| Author | | | | Environment and Natural Resources Service |
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| Abstract | | | | The environmental price of food production is the loss of natural vegetation and biological
diversity, soil erosion, and surface and groundwater depletion. Inevitably, there are divergent
views about how land should be used - whether for industrial crops, food, nature conservation or
industry. These conflicts exist for coastal and inland areas and common property resources
such as forests, grazing lands and even oceans. |
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Article |
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| Affiliation | | | | Food and Agriculture Organization |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/FSdirect/FBdirect/FSE001.htm |
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| Title | | | | Impact of Population Growth on Food Supplies and Environment |
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| Author | | | | David Pimentel, Xuewen Huang, Ana Cordova, and Marcia Pimentel |
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| Abstract | | | | Presented at AAAS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 9 February 1996. As the world population
continues to grow geometrically, great pressure is being placed on arable land, water, energy,
and biological resources to provide an adequate supply of food while maintaining the integrity of
our ecosystem. According to the World Bank and the United Nations, from 1 to 2 billion
humans are now malnourished, indicating a combination of insufficient food, low incomes, and
inadequate distribution of food. This is the largest number of hungry humans ever recorded in
history. In China about 80 million are now malnourished and hungry. Based on current rates of
increase, the world population is projected to double from roughly 6 billion to more than 12
billion in less than 50 years (Pimentel et al., 1994). As the world population expands, the food
problem will become increasingly severe, conceivably with the numbers of malnourished
reaching 3 billion." |
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Journal Article |
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| Affiliation | | | | Cornell University |
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| URL: | | | | http://dieoff.org/page57.htm |
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| Title | | | | Potential impacts of sea-level rise on populations and agriculture |
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| Author | | | | R. Gommes, J. du Guerny, F. Nachtergaele and R. Brinkman |
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| Abstract | | | | addresses issues related to the potential impacts of sea level rise on the world's coastal
populations and agriculture. This is a global" study mostly based on national data. Includes:Introduction / Demographic, physiographic and socio-economic setting
Direct and indirect effects of sea-level rise
Extreme events: Lessons from the recent past
The "Vulnerability Index"
Conclusions / References
Appendix table: Indicators from Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) countries" |
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Report |
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| Affiliation | | | | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/EIdirect/EIre0045.htm |
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