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Science And Sustainable Food Security : Selected Papers Of M S Swaminathan.
This book provides a roadmap for achieving sustainable agricultural advance and food security in an era of climate change and global economic melt-down. The contents include a description of the paradigm shift under the leadership of the author, from a green to an ever-green revolution necessary for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgment
- Foreword
- About the Editor
- Introduction
- Combining Yield and Quality in Rice
- Economics of Pusa Basmati 4 cultivation:
- Area under Pusa 1121 cultivation during Kharif 2007:
- Release of Pusa 1121 in Punjab:
- State of Indian Agriculture Today and the Way Ahead
- Defending the Gains
- Overcoming the Technology Fatigue
- Training
- Techno-infrastructure
- Trade
- References
- Section I: Food Security and Economic Development
- How science is applied to solve problems of poverty, drought and famine
- Commentary
- 1. Swaminathan, M.S. (1983). Agricultural Progress
- Key to Third World Prosperity. Third World Quarterly 5(3): 553-566.
- 2. Swaminathan, M.S. (1990). Changing Nature of the Food Security Challenge: Implications for Agricultural Research and Policy. Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Washington DC.
- Food Security Challenges Today
- Technology and Food and Ecological Security
- Response to the Challenges Ahead
- Biotechnology: Opportunities
- Biotechnology and Third World Concerns
- Biodiversity and Biofuture
- Food and Jobs
- Research for Tomorrow
- 3. Swaminathan, M.S. (2001). Bridging the Nutritional Divide
- Building Community Centred Nutrition Security Systems. The Little Magazine, Year end, 2001, pp. 15-25.
- GROWING DISPARITIES
- NUTRITION PROFILE AMONG A FEW NATIONS IN ASIA: ROLE OF NON-NUTRITIONAL FACTORS
- CHALLENGES AHEAD
- MEETING THE CHALLENGES
- BUILplNG A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY NUTRITION SECURITY SYSTEM
- AGENDA 2007: A HUNGER-FREE INDIA
- REFERENCES
- 4. Swaminathan, M.S. (2004). Africa's Rainbow Revolution. TWAS Newsletter 3/4, 10,72-76.
- ACTION
- 5. Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swarninathan, M.S. (2005). Hunger in Africa: The Link Between Unhealthy People and Unhealthy Soils. The Lancet
- Vol. 265, Issue 9457,29 January 2005,442-444.
- Understanding Afria's food productivity crisis
- Time for a 21st century green revolution for Africa
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 6. Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swaminathan, M.S. (2005). Cutting World Hunger in Half. Science 307(5708): 357-359.
- Diagnosis
- Recommendations
- Entry Points
- Resources Needed
- It Can Be Done
- References and Notes
- 7. Swaminathan, M.S. (2007). Can Science and Technology Feed the World in 2025? Field Crops Research 104: 3-9.
- Technology
- Training
- Techno-Infrastructure
- Trade
- Shaping our Agricultural Future
- A three pronged Strategy
- Defending the Gains
- Extending the Gains
- Making New Gains
- References
- 8. Parry, Martin L. and Swaminathan, M.S. (1992). Effects of Climate Change on Food Production. Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses. Irwing, M, Montzer (ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 113-115.
- Editors Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Most Threatening Types of Climate Change
- 3. Potential Direct Effects of Greenhouse Gases on Crops and Livestock
- 4. Potential Effects of Climate Change
- 5. Likely Effects on World Food Supply and Food Security
- 6. Response Strategies
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- 9. Swaminathan, M.S. (2003). Sustainable Food Security in Africa: Lessons from India's Green Revolution. South African Journal of International Affairs 10(1)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Agr.