a UN report that provides a summary of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and life on the planet and how we may be able to feed the world in a more sustainable manner

dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies

report details the environmental destruction which results from soy monocultures in Paraguay, as well as human rights abuses against local and indigenous people, and also provides a critique of the Round Table for Sustainable Soy model promoted by WWF (pdf)

an article in Environment 360 that describes the pressures by commercial farming on migration patterns in the Southern Sudan

report on the impacts on African tropical rainforests caused by one of the World's largest producers of cocoa, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database

a discussion of deforestation due expressly to cattle ranching with special attention paid to Costa Rica, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database

a structured guide to agricultural organizations, databases, bibliographical references, WWW sites and discussion lists; including search capabilities

the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs provides documents that describe a vision of what they want the food system to look like in 2030, and how they can get there

a Southern African network that promotes food, agriculture and natural resources policies through research, analysis and dialogue at the national, regional and global levels

seeks to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops

documents the effects of transgenic maize in Mexico, investigating the potential for gene flow from genetically modified plants—or transgenic corn—to Mexican maize and its wild relatives

a report from the Rodale Institute that maintains that sustainable farming methods will better meet the needs of the earth's growing population than the methods currently in use (pdf)

an assessment on how sugar has exacted a heavy environmental toll in the Philippines, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database

report by WWF which explores the impacts of agricultural practices on the environment and biodiversity conservation (pdf)

from Friends of the Earth International, a report that analyzes the area of GM crops in the world, and provides evidence on their impacts in the countries that have planted them (pdf)