Agriculture and the environment: ethical Issues

Everyone involved in agriculture has a responsibility for ensuring that they are aware of the ethical dimensions of their practices and act accordingly. In this manner, the impacts that agriculture have on the environment deserve critical ethical attention. The emergence of sustainability as a vital context for agricultural development, provides a novel opportunity to respond to the challenges that ethical evaluations demand. At base, ethics and related matters of human value are regarded as one of a number of the elements that comprise our worldviews. The argument here is that the transformation of worldviews is a pre-requisite for the sustainable transformation of agriculture in all of its complexities. The difficulties of achieving these changes are well appreciated.