Affiliation:
1. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial CollegeWye Campus, Kent TN25 5AH, UK
2. International Food Policy Research InstituteWashington, DC 20006-1002, USA
Abstract
As a result of agricultural intensification, more food is produced today than needed to feed the entire world population and at prices that have never been so low. Yet despite this success and the impact of globalization and increasing world trade in agriculture, there remain large, persistent and, in some cases, worsening spatial differences in the ability of societies to both feed themselves and protect the long-term productive capacity of their natural resources. This paper explores these differences and develops a country×farming systems typology for exploring the linkages between human needs, agriculture and the environment, and for assessing options for addressing future food security, land use and ecosystem service challenges facing different societies around the world.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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