Published in 1998. This book provides a global overview of agrochemical use against the backdrop of future agricultural production requirements and environmental concerns. From acknowledged experts in their field this book examines the relationship between agro-chemical use and sustainability, producer knowledge and policy analysis for less developed and industrialized economies.
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1. Introduction to Agro-Chemicals Use Part 1: Inventories and Overviews
for Different Areas of the World
2. Who Will Feed China? Agro-Chemicals and
Chinas Grain Strategy to 2010
3. Growth and Economics of Pesticide use in
India: Overview of the Environment, Patterns and Market Potential
4. Do
Fertilizers Play a Major Role in Sustainable Agricultural Development in West
Africa?
5. Analysis of Intensive Farming Systems in the European Union Part
2: Agro-Chemicals Use and Sustainable Agriculture
6. Agro-Chemicals use and
Sustainable Agriculture: Some Observations from a Semi-Arid Area of India
7.
Use and Abuse of Chemical Fertilizers in a Resource-Scarce Economy: Karnataka
Province, India
8. An Economic Evaluation of Alternative Nutrient Management
Practices in Sustaining Resource Base Productivity
9. Economic Evaluation of
Low and High External Input Agriculture: A Production Function Analysis for
Indonesia
10. Evaluating Sustainability of Intensive Farming Systems in China
Part 3: Efficiency and Producers Knowledge and Perceptions
11. Regional
Variation in Efficiency of Fertilizer Use: Food Crop Production in Togo
12.
Environmental and Economic Effects of Spatial Variability in Cropping:
Nitrogen Fertilization and Site-Specific Management
13. Farmers Perceptions
of Sustainable Production Techniques: Weed Control in Sugarbeet Part 4:
Determinants of Fertilizer and Pesticide Use
14. The Effect of Price Changes
on the Use of Fertilizer and Pesticides in Dutch Wheat Production
15. The
Demand for Fertilizer on Upland Rice in the South-West of Burkina Faso:
Determinants and Cost and Returns analysis
16. Farm Management of Fungicide
Use in Tulips in The Netherlands Part 5: Policy Instruments and Policy
Analysis: LDCS
17. Public Policy and Fertilizer Demand in Ghana
18.
Consequences for Agricultural Policies of Analysing Economic and Political
Factors of Pesticide Use in Developing Countries
19. Financial and Economic
Evaluation of Phosphate Rock Use to Enhance Soil Fertility in West Africa: Is
There a Role for Government? Part 6: Policy Instrumruments and Poilcy
Analysis: Industrialzed Countries
20. External Effects of Argo-Chemicals: Are
they Important and How do we Cope with them?
21. Ecomomic Policy and Water
Pollution
22. Benefits of Improving Water in South-Western British Columbia:
An Application of Economic Valuation Methods
23. Policy Instruments to
Control Multi-Nutrients in an Agriculture Watershed
24. Costs and Benefits of
Pesticide Reduction in Agriculture: Best Solutions Part 7: Perspectives for
the 21st Century
25. Transformation and Enviroment: Perspective for Central
and Eastern European Countires
26. Less is More: Why Argo-Chemicals Use Will
Decline in Industralized Countries.
Wossink, G.A.A.; Kooten, G.C. van; Peters, G.H.
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