Some aspects of agricultural influence on the environment

Abstract

This work presents the main characteristics and trends of agricultural influence on the environment, as one of the most important real interaction systems between society and nature. Functionally the most important mechanisms of agricultural influence on the environment were explained on the basis of the facts. Agriculture is in the focus because it is the oldest and the most permanent, and for the increasing population existence it is the most significant field of material production. Since it appeared for the first time until today, with respect to the appearance of other numerous industries, it has remained territorially most present and cumulatively the most significant agent of human society influence on transformation and degradation of the environment. 'The Hunger' for food, raw materials, agricultural areas is the most persistent companion of increasing human population and the factor of further complexity of agriculture-environment system. The full understanding of this system is essential to human society, because agriculture gave the society the conditions for demographic growth, cultural progress, safety but also provided it with potentially efficient means for environmental system destruction increase and its own existential jeopardy.

Rad ukazuje na glavne karakteristike i trendove uticaja poljoprivrede na životnu sredinu, kao jednog od najznačajnijih realnih sistema interakcije društva i prirode. Na temelju činjenica razjašnjeni su funkcionalno najznačajniji mehanizmi uticaja poljoprivrede na životnu sredinu. Poljoprivreda je u fokusu zbog činjenica da je najstarija i najtrajnija, a za egzistenciju rastuće ljudske populacije i najznačajnija oblast materijalne proizvodnje. Od pojave do današnjih dana ona je, i pored pojave mnogobrojnih drugih delatnosti, ostala teritorijalno najprisutniji i kumulativno najznačajniji agens delovanja društva na transformaciju i degradaciju životne sredine. 'Glad' za hranom, sirovinama i poljoprivrednim površinama je najuporniji pratilac rastuće ljudske populacije i faktor daljeg usložnjavanja sistema poljoprivreda - životna sredina. Celovito razumevanje ovog sistema je neophodno ljudskom društvu, jer je ono poljoprivredom steklo uslove za demografski rast, kulturni progres i sigurnost ali i potencijalno efikasno sredstvo za uvećanje destrukcije sistema životne sredine i sopstvenu egzistencijalnu ugroženost.