AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

It is now widely accepted that the need for seeking strategies for the sustainability of food produc tion, and renewable and non-renewable natural resource use, is beyond question. Although the worst case predictions of human population explosion have not been realized, there seems little doubt that there is already a significant increase in numbers; at least 90 million people are added to the world population annually. Unless there is major international cooperation in addressing the problems as sociated with population control, it is predicted that the global human population will reach more than 14 billion by the year 2050. The provision of adequate food, fuel and space for such an increased population will be unachievable.