Assessing the Environmental Impact of Farm Policies

By Walter Nebeker Thurman

An essential deep-dive for anyone at the crossroads of agriculture and environmentalism, where AEI economist Walter Thurman rigorously examines how US commodity programs, from feed grains, cotton, and rice supports to tobacco, peanut, sugar, and dairy policy, shape the environment, while offering a clear-eyed assessment of conservation compliance, the Conservation Reserve Program, and emerging "green support" proposals as pathways toward meaningful agricultural reform.

This book is a study of the ways in which U.S. agriculture policies contribute to or help to ameliorate the adverse effects of farming on the environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844739154
• ISBN13: 9780844739151
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"