How Have Changes in Farming have altered the rural environment?

... Michael Wright How Changes in Farming have altered the rural environment? Farming has experienced many changes related to biological, chemical, mechanical and environmental developments. It has also developed because of new policies introduced and these development shave had a large impact on rural environments. One of the general ways agriculture has developed is by agribusiness. Agribusinesses are farms owned by large companies usually trans-national. These farms are very large with high capital investment and use modern technologies to increase crop yields. With these farms profit is the most important and often at the expense of social and environmental factors. An example of an agribusiness is Unilever who invest heavily in the developed and developing world. They employ over 120,000 people in the developing word in plantations and in factories for low wages. The impacts are mainly negative for rural environments because wages are likely to be lower and the local people have

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