This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies,
nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections …

This paper critically evaluates the notion and application of economic, monetary valuation of
biological diversity, or biodiversity. For this purpose four levels of diversity are considered …

The idea for this book began in 1995 when the senior author spent a sabbatical leave at
Wageningen Agricultural University (later renamed Wageningen University). As a result of …

Resource conservation programs have often been launched without careful evaluation of
farmers' intertemporal tradeoffs in undertaking conservation investments. Such investments …

The economics of land degradation has received relatively little attention until recent years.
Although a number of studies have undertaken valuation of ecosystem services ranging …

This chapter deals with international policy issues relevant to world price volatility in basic
foodstuffs, particularly the extent to which multilateral trade rules are conducive to an …

Executive summary Soil degradation in many developing countries constitutes a serious
ecological and economic problem. Assessing ecosystems that are susceptible to soil …

In this paper, the main socio-economic concepts and their applications in the study of soil
degradation are reviewed under three broad headings: soil conservation as an input in …

Trees can be considered as investments made by economic agents to prevent depreciation
of natural assets such as stocks of top soil and water. In agroforestry systems farmers use …

On-site and off-site environmental impacts of runoff and erosion are usually stressed in order
to bring to the public's attention the importance and implications of soil erosion. However …