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'The Green Revolution' of the 60s and 70s produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era. This book looks at the effects of international economic restraints and of national policies on the required development.

Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and animals - are used increasingly to improve domesticated crops and livestock and as new sources of food and of raw materials. This book describes the growing contribution of wild genetic resources to the production of food and raw materials, and their characteristics.

Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. This book describes what is happening and where. It also discusses many of the myriad ways in which it is possible to arrest the progress of desertification.

The agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to: extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; and, contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria. This work discusses the politics of Industrial Agriculture.

Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species. This book offers an analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents a strategy for controlling it.

There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are destroying inshore eco-systems. This book describes the situation in the Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the South-East Asian Seas and the Eastern Pacific.