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Environmental Problems, Development, and Agricultural Production Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

W. B. Clapham Jr
W. B. Clapham Jr
Affiliation:
Environmental Perspectives Inc., 2081 Lamberton Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44118, U.S.A.; formerly Research Scientist, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (HASA), Schloss Laxenburg, A-2861 Laxenburg, Austria.
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Environmental problems of agriculture constitute some of the most complex and significant problems of modern times. They are found in all countries, but are most prominent—and tend to be most serious—in Third World countries located in ecologically vulnerable areas. Their roots commonly lie in the culture of the population, the farmers' behaviour, or the economy of the area.

In order to assess patterns of agricultural development in general, or to assess the implications of development projects, we must include the environmental, behavioural, and policy, dimensions of the agricultural production system into a single framework, so that we can understand both the problems as narrowly defined and the measures which must be taken in order to solve them.

One way of doing this is through a comprehensive, out qualitative, overview of the system. This provides a general framework for any analysis, and it can be so simplified that a particular problem can be treated in a meaningful and adequate fashion.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 1980 , pp. 145 - 152
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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