Book description

The demands for food supply, socioeconomic factors, environmental and technological revolution as well as political factors; many of which are spatially specific, have been identified as tools that shaped the characteristic trends in agricultural systems evolution. It is important to know that the performance of agriculture measured (before now) in terms of food, fiber and bio-energy production is now, to a large extent, measured on a range of other social and environmental outcomes, positive and negative. However, the emerging consensus of agricultural mechanization at meeting the needs of a growing and potentially more prosperous global population mainly from the existing stock of agricultural resources has gone a long way in saving the world's ecosystems that could have been irreparably damaged.