Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading
Technical development in agriculture is largely dependent upon the interaction of labour productivity with demographie pressure on available arable land. The paper is aimed at sketching oui the relation of relative energy utilization levels in agriculture with labour productivity, land availability...
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Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
1996-01-01
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| description | Technical development in agriculture is largely dependent upon the interaction of labour productivity with demographie pressure on available arable land. The paper is aimed at sketching oui the relation of relative energy utilization levels in agriculture with labour productivity, land availability and environmental loading. It is accordingly discussed the position of selected countries around the world. Four groups of countries are roughly identifiable ; major problems seem to arise where a high energy use per unit of food is coupled with a low labour productivity and with a relatively high level of environmental loading. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81a625bd7e9c4f6681dbe926cdabdf412022-12-22T00:11:24ZengPresses Agronomiques de GemblouxTropicultura0771-33121996-01-01143118121Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological LoadingConforti, P.Giampietro, M.Technical development in agriculture is largely dependent upon the interaction of labour productivity with demographie pressure on available arable land. The paper is aimed at sketching oui the relation of relative energy utilization levels in agriculture with labour productivity, land availability and environmental loading. It is accordingly discussed the position of selected countries around the world. Four groups of countries are roughly identifiable ; major problems seem to arise where a high energy use per unit of food is coupled with a low labour productivity and with a relatively high level of environmental loading.http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v14n3/118.pdfAgricultureEnergyAgricultural development |
| spellingShingle | Conforti, P. Giampietro, M. Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading Tropicultura Agriculture Energy Agricultural development |
| title | Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading |
| title_full | Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading |
| title_fullStr | Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading |
| title_full_unstemmed | Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading |
| title_short | Energy Use in Agriculture : an Empirical Note on Technical Development and Ecological Loading |
| title_sort | energy use in agriculture an empirical note on technical development and ecological loading |
| topic | Agriculture Energy Agricultural development |
| url | http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v14n3/118.pdf |
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