Agriculture is one of the main drivers of environmental change. It is the source of many changes in land use and the origin of a broad range of pollutants. We can usefully think of the impact of agriculture on the environment, and of the interrelationship between the two, by thinking of...

A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable, complex, and often poorly understood. The quantity...