Agrimonde - Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050

How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems? The 21st century has three challenges to meet concerning food and agriculture: food security in terms of both quantity and quality; protection of the environment and natural resources; and the inc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Paillard, Sandrine (Editor ), Treyer, Sébastien (Editor ), Dorin, Bruno (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Agriculture.
Sustainability.
Agriculture-Economic aspects.
Agricultural Economics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Agrimonde: a work collective
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Agrimonde: a platform for facilitating collective scenario-building
  • 2 Agribiom: a tool for scenario-building and hybrid modelling
  • 3 The world food economy: a retrospective overview
  • 4 Scenario-building choices and principles
  • 5 Food consumption in 2050
  • 6 Land use in 2050
  • 7 Food crop yields in 2050
  • 8 Resource-use balances in the Agrimonde scenarios
  • 9 Agrimonde 1 and Agrimonde GO: comparison, coherence, drivers of change
  • 10 Qualitative dimensions and Agrimonde scenario storylines
  • 11 Scenario-based insight into food behaviours, technological options and trade :Food behaviours in question: are ruptures plausible?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1 - Lists of countries and FAO-SUA product lines used in Agribiom - Comparison of observed and simulated animal food Productions
  • Appendix 2 - Review of the world food economy
  • Appendix 3 - Food availability and loss of food calories in the Agrimonde GO scenario - Definition of loss and waste of food calories
  • Appendix 4 - Land areas in Agrimonde GO
  • Appendix 5 - Main quantitative assumptions of Agrimonde scenarios - Process for attaining a resource-use balance
  • Appendix 6 - Assumptions on the qualitative dimensions of the Agrimonde scenarios
  • References
  • List of abbreviations and acronyms
  • List of authors.

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