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The aggressiveness of EC agricultural policies is often excessively portrayed as a cause of the problems affecting the agricultural industry in the US. Although the EC's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the impending completion of the single European market in 1992 pose serious threats, it is a fact that protectionist policies also exist in non-EC countries. Nonetheless, non-EC nations should not feel threatened by the appearance of the EC single market, since the changes it brings are mostly internal. As to the CAP, the EC is planning to implement reforms in response to widespread discontent and GATT pressures.
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Models that predict biophysical interactions become indispensible tools for impact assessment of climatic changes on agricultural systems. Three limitations currently affect assessment studies: models for many crops are wanting, the range of validity of field-scale models is deficient, and present models lack components crucial to decision making. To comprehensively study systems, the horizontal and heirarchical model integration approaches may be employed in addition to data base development. Only with the development of new models can solutions to the climate change issue be made.
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The agricultural revolution is dominated by two contrasting schools of thought. Nature-based agriculture, proposed by some farmer groups, sees farming as an interaction between complex suborganisms limited by biological factors. On the other hand, industry-based agriculture views farming as a factory requiring inputs, outputs and production units. In choosing the better alternative, society should go beyond economic considerations, examine potential long-term effects of each model and prevent fallacies from affecting its decisions.
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