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1 online resource (152 pages) |
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Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development |
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Context, Rationale, and Scope -- Road Map -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Origins and Consequences of Farm-Level Pollution in Emerging East Asia -- Adverse Effects of Agricultural Pollution -- Farming as a Source of Pollution -- Structural and Policy Drivers of Farm Pollution -- Public Sector Responses to Date -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Tackling and Preventing the Problem -- Technical Solutions and Policy Instruments |
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Strategic Directions for Effective Pollution Prevention and Control -- From Looming Crisis to Opportunity -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- Box ES.1 Examples of Public Sector Instruments That Can Be Used to Address Agricultural Pollution -- Box I.1 Study Road Map -- Box 1.1 The Benefits of Agricultural Intensification in East Asia -- Box 1.2 Valuing the Costs of "Runaway" Nitrogen -- Box 1.3 Drug Resistance Related to the Use of Antibiotics and Other Antimicrobials: A Global Health Crisis -- Box 1.4 When Biodiversity Suffers from Pollution -- Box 1.5 Aquaculture: A Polluted Polluter |
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Box 1.6 Nutrient Pollution from Fertilizers, Feces, and Feed in Aquaculture -- Box 1.7 Fertilizer Use in East Asia -- Box 1.8 The Practice of Field Burning -- Box 1.9 "More Is Better" Orientations of Food and Agricultural Policy -- Box 1.10 The Responsiveness of Regional Agriculture to Growing and Shifting Demand: Trends in the Production of Major Agricultural Commodities in East Asia -- Box 1.11 Farm Size and Fertilizer Use -- Box 1.12 Livestock Operations: Small but Clustered and Intensive -- Box 1.13 Highlights from China's Sustainable Agricultural Development Plan |
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Box 2.1 Examples of Public Sector Instruments That Can Be Used to Address Agricultural Pollution -- Box 2.2 Regional Agricultural Pollution Priorities -- Box 2.3 Redeploying Public Resources to Support the Production of Clean Food -- Box 2.4 The Chesapeake Bay Program: Lessons in Cross-Jurisdictional, Multistakeholder Collaboration -- Box 2.5 The European Union's Multipronged Approach to Tackling Nitrates, a Pervasive Agricultural Pollutant -- Box 2.6 Long Sticks and Flexibility: Manure Management in the Netherlands |
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Box 2.7 Structural Aspects of Farm Sector Development That the Public Sector Can Try to Influence -- Box 2.8 Examples of Trade-Offs Implied by Structural Change -- Box 2.9 Cultivating Sustainable Diets through Food Culture, Business, and Science -- Box 2.10 Examples of Critical Data and Evidence Gaps in the Philippines -- Box 2.11 Precision Farming for Smallholders: Innovations and Challenges in China -- Box 2.12 Four Strategic Directions for Effective Agricultural Pollution Prevention and Control -- Figures -- Figure I.1 Sources and Impacts of Farm Pollution: A Multifaceted and Complex Problem |
| Summary |
In emerging East Asia, agricultural output has expanded dramatically over recent decades, primarily as a result of successful efforts to stimulate yield growth. This achievement has increased the availability of food and raw materials in the region, drastically diminished hunger, and more generally provided solid ground for economic development. The intensification of agriculture that has made this possible, however, has also led to serious pollution problems that have adversely affected human and ecosystem health, as well as the productivity of agriculture itself. In the region that currently owes the largest proportion of deaths to the environment, agriculture is often portrayed as a victim of industrial and urban pollution, and this is indeed the case. Yet agriculture is taking a growing toll on economic resources and sometimes becoming a victim of its own success. In parts of China, Vietnam, and the Philippines-the countries studied in The Challenge of Agricultural Pollution-this pattern of highly productive yet highly polluting agriculture has been unfolding with consequences that remain poorly understood. With large numbers of pollutants and sources, agricultural pollution is often undetected and unmeasured. When assessments do occur, they tend to take place within technical silos, and so the different ecological and socioeconomic risks are seldom considered as a whole, while some escape study entirely. However, when agricultural pollution is considered in its entirety, both the significance of its impacts and the relative neglect of them become clear. Meanwhile, growing recognition that a "pollute now, treat later"? approach is unsustainable-from both a human health and an agroindustry perspective-has led public and private sector actors to seek solutions to this problem. Yet public intervention has tended to be more reactive than preventive and often inadequate in scale. In some instances, the implementation of sound pollution control programs has also been confronted with incentive structures that do not rank environmental outcomes prominently. Significant potential does exist, however, to reduce the footprint of farms through existing technical solutions, and with adequate and well-crafted government support, its realization is well within reach |
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Pollution prevention -- East Asia
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Agricultural pollution -- East Asia
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Agricultural pollution
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Pollution prevention
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East Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
World Bank.
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| ISBN |
9781464812026 |
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1464812020 |
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