Agriculture as a Global Polluter

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Published: January 1989
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ISBN: 9781843693192
Product code:6028IIED
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We tend to associate pollution with industrial activity, but agriculture, too, is a polluter. Pesticides, fertilisers and farm wastes can create severe pollution of water and land, on a local and sometimes even regional scale. In recent years it has also become apparent that agriculture is a major source of atmospheric pollution, with consequences that are both long term and global.

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Pretty, J. and Conway, G. (1989). Agriculture as a Global Polluter. IIED, London.
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