Agricultural Globalization Trade and the Environment
The relative prosperity in U.S. agriculture that attended the passage of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 was followed by a general decline in U.S. agricultural prices from 1998 to 2000. This trend in declining prices continues t
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N A T U R A L RESOURCE M A N A G E M E N T AND POLICY Editors: Ariel Dinar Rural Development Department The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
David Zilberman Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics Univ. of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720
EDITORIAL S T A T E M E N T There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore, there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water, land and the environment are linked, and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics, management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water, land, crop protection, sustainable agriculture, technology, and environmental health. It incorporates modern thinking and techniques of economics and management. Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment. Concerns about the social and environmental effects of agricultural globalization and trade have grown substantially in recent years. Countries whose economies depend on production and export of agricultural commodities and minerals are particularly vulnerable to changing conditions in the global economy, notably to declining terms of trade, as witnessed in their steadily falling standards of living. An additional concern is the steady decline of the global environment. "Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment" addresses these concerns via a series of approaches, and helps the reader approach a conclusion on the likely direction of these effects. The Series Editors Recently Published Books in the Series Bauer, Carl J.: Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile Easter, K. William, Rosegrant, Mark W., and Dinar, Ariel: Markets for Water: Potential and Performance Smale, Melinda: Farmers, Gene Banks, and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice Casey, Frank, Schmitz, Andrew, Swinton, Scott, and Zilberman, David: Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture Feitelson, Eran and Haddad, Marwan Management of Shared Groundwater Resources: the Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective Wolf, Steven and Zilberman, David Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL GLOBALIZATION TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT EDITED BY Charles B. Moss Gordon C. Rausser Andrew Schmitz Timothy G. Taylor David Zilberman
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