ABSTRACT
There has been a steady growth in the academic study of linkages between farming and environmental issues, especially with a focus upon resource management problems and notions of sustainable development (e.g. Buttel, 1992; Cocklin, 1995; Drummond and Marsden, 1999; Hassenein and Kloppenburg, 1995; Liepins, 1995; McHenry, 1996). In part this growth reflects awareness, evolving over several decades, of environmental impacts arising from productivist agricultural policies (Table 10.1). These environmental impacts have varied according to the particular ecological characteristics of individual farms, but in general terms
