EAN: 9783030346010

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND ...

This book provides a non-technical  accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development
and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars. The first is
to understand agriculture as complex physical-biological-human systems. Second is the economic
perspective of understanding tradeoffs and synergies among the economic  environmental and
social dimensions of these systems at farm  regional and global scales. Third is the
understanding of these agricultural systems as the supply side of one sector of a growing
economy  interacting through markets and policies with other sectors at local  national and
global scales. The first part of the book introduces the concept of sustainability and develops
an analytical framework based on tradeoffs quantified using impact indicators in the economic 
environmental and social domains  linking this framework to the role of agriculture in economic
growth and development. Next the authors introduce the reader to the sustainability challenges
of major agroecosystems in the developing and industrialized worlds. The concluding chapter
discusses the design and implementation of sustainable development pathways  through the
expression of consumers' desire for sustainably produced foods on the demand side of the food
system  and through policies on the supply side such as new more sustainable technologies 
environmental regulation and payments for ecosystem services.

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