Agri-Culture

Notes

Chapter 1 Landscapes Lost and Found

1 Data on food production analysed from the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) FAOSTAT database (www.fao.org). During the past 15 years, aggregate production in Europe has been largely stable due to supply management policies, whereas in the US it has grown by 35 per cent.

2 World population was 3.08 billion in 1960; 3.69 billion in 1970; 4.44 billion in 1980; and 5.27 billion in 1990. The annual growth rate of world population was 2.1 per cent in the late 1960s; had fallen to 1.3 per cent during the late 1990s; and is projected by the United Nations Population Fund, 1999, to fall further to 1 per cent by 2015, to 0.7 per cent by 2030, and to just 0.3 per cent by 2050.

3 For details of food policy ...