Contents Notes |
A brief history of U.S. agricultural policy and the farm bill -- An overview of the modern farm bill -- The environmental impacts of industrial fertilizers and pesticides -- Agricultural irrigation -- The industrialization of animal agriculture : connecting a model with its impacts on the environment -- Genetically modified organisms and the environment -- Environmental and climate impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution -- The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Agriculture and the Clean Water Act -- Agriculture and the Clean Air Act -- Agriculture and the Endangered Species Act -- Agriculture, food, and the National Environmental Policy Act -- The food statutes -- Agriculture and ecosystem services : paying farmers to do the new right thing -- Achieving a sustainabile farm bill -- Registering transgenic crops pursuant to the Plant Protection Act -- The future of food eco-labeling : a comparative analysis -- Into the future : building a sustainable and resilient agricultural system for a changing global environment. |