edited by Otto T. Solbrig, Robert Paarlberg and Francesco Di Castri.
[Great Britain] :
Distributed by Harvard University Press,
c2001.
xv, 535 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm.
The David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University ;
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Based on a conference-workshop "The impact of globalization and the information society on the rural environment", Cambridge, Mass., January 19-21 2000.
A Europe without peasants / Guy Sorman -- The impact of globalization and the information society on the rural space: conceptual analysis and some policy suggestions / Otto T. Solbrig -- Cycles of globalization, economic growth, and human welfare in latin America / John H. Coatsworth -- Are famine and malnutrition questions of supply or demand? Implications for environmental rural sustainability / Rocío Fernández Alés and Otto T. Solbrig -- Impacts of agronomic technologies on rural environments -- introduction / Otto T. Solbrig -- Production systems in the Argentine Pampas and their ecological impact / Emilio H. Satorre -- The impact of Global changes on the rural environment in Ecoregions of the Southern Cone of South America / Ernesto T. Viglizzo -- Ecological impacts of modern agriculture in the United States and Latin America / Miguel A. Altieri and Clara Ines Nicholls.
Sustainable agriculture in the lowlands subtropics and neotropics? Trends and bioeconomic opportunities and constraints / Raúl R. Vera -- Environmental impacts of globalization and agriculture on the environment / Pierre Corsson -- Direct seed cropping in Argentina: economic, agronomic and sustainability benefits / Roberto A. Peiretti -- The environmentally positive aspects of the agrochemical industry in Argentina / Carlos salvador -- The impact of biotechnology in South America / Rolando Meninato -- Technology, gene research, and national competitiveness / Juan Enriquez -- Environmental impacts of modern agriculture: the role of policy and trade liberalization / Sandra S. Batie -- The impact of environmental policies, consumer behavior and information technology on agricultural trade, with special reference to Europe / Jan C. Blom.
The impact of modern agricultural technologies: economics' usefulness in the debate about future directions for agriculture / Otto Doering -- Environmental impacts of globalization through trade liberalization in agriculture; analyzing the empirical evidence from Latin America / Eugenio Figueroa B. -- Globalization and agriculture: some facts, interpretations, and policy issues / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla -- Different EU and US perspectives on biotechnology and their implications for trade relations / Wyn Grant -- Forging new connections between agriculture and the city / Max J. Pfeffer, J. Mayone Stycos, Leland Glenna, and Joyce Altobelli -- Urban sprawl and landscape perturbation in high quality farmland ecosystems: the case of the Buenos Aires metropolitan region / Jorge Morello, Silvia D. Matteucci, and Gustavo Buzai -- Rural values and the european view of agriculture / Francesco di Castri.