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Sustaining global food security : the nexus of science and policy /
"Population growth alone dictates that global food supplies must increase by over 50% in coming decades. Advances in technology offer an array of opportunities to meet this demand, but history shows that these can be fully realised only within an enabling policy environment. Sustaining Global F...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton South, VIC :
CSIRO Publishing,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Tapping and creating genetic resources. 1: Systematic assessment for conservation and utilisation of crop genetic resources
- 2: Crop species origins, the impact of domestication and the potential of wide hybridisation for crop improvement
- 3: Technological and policy challenges to utilisation of plant genetic resources
- 4: Oryza genome diversity: discovery, management and utilisation
- Part 2: Redesigning crop plants. 5: Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: progress under HarvestPlus
- 6: Delivering biofortified crops in developing countries
- 7: Fatty acids and pharmamolecules
- 8: Resistant starch, large bowel fermentation and human health
- 9: Redesigning crop photosynthesis
- Part 3: Modern plant breeding. 10: Modern plant breeding: a perspective from the public sector in the United States
- 11: Improving the regulation and social acceptance of crop-protection and seeds products produced using new technologies: an industry perspective
- 12: Plant phenome to genome: a big data challenge
- 13: Incorporating stress tolerance in rice
- Note continued: Part 4: Managing the crop. 14: Closing crop yield gaps around the world
- 15: The soil microbiome and crop nitrogen nutrition in anaerobic systems: a case study in rice
- 16: Manipulating molecular interactions between hosts and pathogens for enhancing resistance and disease management
- 17: Sustainable rice pest management: the role of agricultural policies
- 18: A view of water management: from river basin to farm
- Part 5: Sustainable intensive systems. 19: Remote sensing for sustainable agricultural management
- 20: A new public-private interface for staple crops: the Sustainable Rice Platform
- 21: Linking public goods with private interests: investing in performance at scale with smallholders and the private sector
- Part 6: Major agricultural regions in transition. 22: Agricultural growth, transformation and policies in China
- 23: Modern plant and agricultural sciences and public policies in India: creating a sustainable global food supply
- 24: Unlocking Africa's agricultural potential
- 25: Sub-Saharan agriculture in transition: the case of rice
- Part 7: Globalisation of food supply. 26: The rapid transformation of food supply chains in developing and emerging economies (DEEs) with implications for farmers and consumers
- 27: Social change and policies driving the transformation of consumption in the food systems
- 28: Trade as a means to meeting global food needs.