Why did the agricultural sector suffer a lot of pressure? In what ways
did the condition of the peasants become miserable?
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Although this subject has been considered in depth by Alexandratos (1995), some aspects relating to the results of this study will be briefly discussed. The more regional constraints on agricultural production are those imposed by available water and land resources. Some pressures on the environment are of a local nature, others are of global importance. Local environmental effects are, for example, leaching of nutrients from fertilized soils, and acidification caused by re-deposited NH3 from animal wastes. More global environmental effects are caused by, for example, radiatively active gases causing global warming, or compounds (such as NH3) involved in aerosol formation in the atmosphere. In this chapter effects of agrochemical use will not be discussed.