Will erosion threaten agricultural productivity?

Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 4-31

  Crosson, Pierre ^a  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; REVIEW; SOIL;

EID: 0030885275     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139159709604756     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. P. Crosson and J. R. Anderson, Resources and Global Food Prospects, Technical Paper No. 184 (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1992).
2. N. Alexandratos, ed., World Agriculture: Towards 2010 (New York: John Wiley and Sons and Toronto: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 1995).
3. S. Trimble, “Denudation Studies: Can We Assume Steady Stream Stater Science 188 (1975): 1207-08.
4. S. Trimble, “Changes in Sediment Storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Driftless Area. Wisconsin, 1853-1975," Science 219 (1981): 181-83
5. S. Trimble and S. Lund, Soil Conservation and the Reduction of Erosion and Sedimentation in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1234 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982).
6. E. Clark III, J. Haverskamp, and W. Chapman, Eroding Soils: The Off-Farm Impacts (Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1985).
7. P. Crosson, “Soil Erosion and Policy Issues.” in T. Phipps, P. Crosson, and K. Price, eds., Agriculture and the Environment (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1986).
8. W. Magrath and P. Arens, The Costs of Soil Erosion on Java: A Natural Resource Accounting Approach, Environment Department Working Paper No. 18 (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1989).
9. E. Eckholm, Losing Ground: Environmental Stress and World Food Prospects (New York: W. W, Norton, 1976).
10. S. El-Swaify, E. Dangler, and C. Armstrong, Soil Erosion by Water in the Tropics (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1982), 1.
11. R. Nelson, Dryland Management: The Land Degradation Problem, Environment Department Working Paper No. 8 (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1988), 1.
12. H. Dregne, “Desertification of Drylands,” in P. Unger. T. Sneed, W, Jordan, and R. Jensen, eds. Chal lenges in Dryland Agriculture: A Global Perspective-Proceedings of the International Conference on Dryland Farming (Bushland/Amarillo, Tex,: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 1988). 679.
13. L. Brown and E. Wolf, Soil Erosion: Quiet Crish in the World Economy, Worldwatch Paper 60 (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1984).
14. D. Pimentel et al, “Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits,” Science 267 (24 February 1995): 1117-23.
15. R. Oldeman, R. Hukkeling, and W. Sombroeck. World Map of the Status of Human-Induced Soil Degradation: An Explanatory Note (Wageningen. the Netherlands: International Soil Information and Reference Center and Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme, 1990).
16. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Production Yearbook 1992 (Rome, 1992).
17. H. Dregne and N.-T. Chou, "Global Desertification Dimensions and Costs," in H. Dregne, ed., Degradation and Restoration of Arid Lands (Lubbock, Tex.; Texas Tech University, 1992), 249-82.
18. J. English, M. Tiffen, and M. Mortimore, Land Resource Management in Machakos District, Kenya, Environment Department Working Paper No. 5 (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1994).
19. P. Pingali, “Institutional and Environmental Constraints to Agricultural Intensification,” Population and Development Review 15 (1989): 243-60.
20. S. Migot-Adholla, P. Hazell, B. Blarel, and F. Place, “Indigenous Land Rights Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Constraint on Productivity?’' World Bank Economic Review 5, no. 1 (1991): 155-75.
21. D. Seckler, “Economic Costs and Benefits of Degradation and its Repair,“ in P. Blaikie and H. Brookfield, eds., Land Degradation and Society (London: Methuen, 1987), 85.
22. R. Strohbehn, ed., An Economic Analysis of USDA Erosion Control Programs: A New Perspective, Agricultural and Economics Report No. 560 (Washington. D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1986).
23. S. Scheer and S. Yadav, Land Degradation in the Developing World: Implications for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment (Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 1996), 11-12.