OECD Compendium of Agri-environmental Indicators
Agriculture can have significant impacts on the environment as it uses on average over 40% of water and land resources in OECD countries. The impacts occur on and off farm, including both pollution and degradation of soil, water and air. But agriculture also supplies ecosystem services, such as biod...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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OECD Publishing
2013
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| Collection: | OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Ammonia emissions: Acidification and eutrophication
- Water resource withdrawals, irrigated area, and irrigation water application rates
- Overview
- Foreword
- Agricultural production, land use, organic farming and transgenic crops
- Pesticide sales
- Soil: Water and wind erosion
- Use of indicators for policy monitoring and evaluation
- Methyl bromide: Ozone depletion
- Water quality: Nitrates, phosphorus and pesticides
- Executive summary
- Nutrients: Nitrogen and phosphorus balances
- Policy and market drivers impacting on the recent and future environmental performance of agriculture
- Energy: On-farm energy consumption and production of biofuels from agricultural feedstocks
- Biodiversity: Farmland bird populations and agricultural land cover
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Climate change