Commodity and Resource Policies in Agricultural Systems

Agricultural, natural resource, and environmental problems are becoming increasingly interdependent. For example, soil erosion is largely determined by agricultural land use. Both water use and water contamination depend on land use and technology choice in agriculture. In many areas, the fertilizers and pesticides used in agriculture are major pollutants of ground and surface water, having adverse effects on drinking water and fisheries. Agricultural pollutants such as pesticides also prod...