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Author |
: J. C. Waterlow |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 1998-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195354492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195354494 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feeding a World Population of More than Eight Billion People by : J. C. Waterlow
Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book takes a critical look at the immediate challenges for feeding the population just a generation from now. Based on the 10th International Symposium sponsored by the Nutrition Committee and the Trustees of the Rank Prize Funds, the volume examines the full range of related issues, from food economics to resource allocation and crop yields. Beginning with an analysis of future food needs, the articles cover basic resources and constraints, applications of science to increase yield, the role of animal products in feeding eight billion people, and diverse social issues. The book provides insights into some of the most important questions we will be faced with in the coming years, making it an invaluable resource for a wide range of researchers in agriculture, the environment, and public policy.
Author |
: Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642523540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3642523544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Earth System Analysis by : Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Since this new science is of an unprecedented interdisciplinary nature, the book does not merely take stock of its numerous ingredients, but also delivers their multifaceted integration. The resulting master paradigm - the co-evolution of nature and anthroposphere within a geo-cybernetic continuum of processes - is based on a structured manifold of partial paradigms with their specific ranges. Most importantly, this serves the scientific foundation of a meaningful, safe and efficient environment and development management for solving the most burning questions concerning humankind and its natural environment. The more concrete elucidation of the natural and human dimensions, as well as various attempts and instruments of integration are represented in the different parts of the book, while the didactic quality is heightened by many allegoric illustrations.
Author |
: Jessica Eise |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610918848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610918843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Feed the World by : Jessica Eise
By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How will we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of challenges. Contributors unite from different perspectives and disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to economics. The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system.
Author |
: Charles F. Gritzner |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438129501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438129505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feeding a Hungry World by : Charles F. Gritzner
As the world's population approaches seven billion people, some fear that Earth's citizens face a catastrophic food crisis in the near future. Furthermore, experts place the globe's population in 2050 at more than nine billion, a potentially overwhelming figure for the world's resources. Some worry how everyone will be fed as land, water, and other natural resources become more scarce. Others are concerned that not everyone will be able to afford food, and starvation may take hold of the world's population. However, some scientists are more optimistic, believing that the hunger problem will be erased from the planet by 2050. Feeding a Hungry World explores the problem of world hunger, how experts propose to cure this problem, and what booming population growth means for the future of food.
Author |
: Joel K. Bourne Jr |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2015-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393248043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393248046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by : Joel K. Bourne Jr
“An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton Sides In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective. He travels the globe to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists on the front lines of the next green revolution. He visits corporate farmers trying to restore Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist, the agronomist behind the world's largest organic sugarcane plantation, and many other extraordinary farmers, large and small, who are racing to stave off catastrophe as climate change disrupts food production worldwide. A Financial Times Best Book of the Year and a Finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
Author |
: Norman Ernest Borlaug |
Publisher |
: Ifdc |
Total Pages |
: 44 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924094699984 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feeding a World of 10 Billion People by : Norman Ernest Borlaug
Author |
: Alex Evans |
Publisher |
: Royal Institute for International Affairs |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105124120606 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feeding of the Nine Billion by : Alex Evans
Global food prices have eased significantly from their record highs in the first part of 2008. As a worldwide economic downturn has gathered pace, commodity markets have weakened significantly. By October 2008, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index stood at 164, the same level as in August 2007, and 25% lower than the Index's high of 219 in June 2008. However, this does not mean that policy-makers around the world can start to breathe a sigh of relief. For one thing, even at their somewhat diminished levels current prices remain acutely problematic for low-income import-dependent countries and for poor people all over the world. The World Bank estimates that higher food prices have increased the number of undernourished people by as much as 100 million from its pre-price-spike level of 850 million.
Author |
: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher |
: Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2018-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789251305720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9251305722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
Author |
: Gordon Conway |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2012-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801466083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801466083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Billion Hungry by : Gordon Conway
Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further challenges. In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security. He expands the discussion begun in his influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the essential combination of increased food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet. Beginning with a definition of hunger and how it is calculated, and moving through issues topically both detailed and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas. Drawing on the latest scientific research and the results of projects around the world, Conway addresses the concepts and realities of our global food needs: the legacy of the Green Revolution; the impact of market forces on food availability; the promise and perils of genetically modified foods; agricultural innovation in regard to crops, livestock, pest control, soil, and water; and the need to both adapt to and slow the rate of climate change. One Billion Hungry will be welcomed by all readers seeking a multifacted understanding of our global food supply, food security, international agricultural development, and sustainability.
Author |
: Marion Guillou |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9402402667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789402402667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World’s Challenge by : Marion Guillou
If a global population of 9 billion by 2050 is to be fed adequately, more food must be produced and this in keeping with increasingly stringent standards of quality and with respect for the environment. Not to mention the land that must be set aside for the production of energy resources, industrial goods, carbon storage and the protection of biodiversity.