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"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gustafson, J. P. (Editor ), Raven, Peter H. (Editor ), Ehrlich, Paul R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2020.
Temas:
Food security.
Food supply.
Agrobiodiversity conservation.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects.
Population > Environmental aspects.
Sécurité alimentaire.
Biodiversité agricole > Conservation.
Agriculture > Aspect de l'environnement.
Population > Aspect de l'environnement.
Aliments > Approvisionnement.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects
Agrobiodiversity conservation
Food security
Food supply
Population > Environmental aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Population, resources, and the environment : the situation in 2019 / Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich
  • Food for 10 billion : possibilities and probabilities / Nina V. Fedoroff
  • Trade's contribution to global food security / Kym Anderson
  • Feeding a world in the wake of climate change and resource constraints : selecting an appropriate farm-level response strategy / James N. Blignaut and Avi Perevolotsky
  • Climate change and food security / Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali
  • Globalized agriculture and tropical deforestation / Derek Byerlee
  • Advances in potential yield of grain crops / Tony Fischer
  • Sivakumar Sukumaran, Francisco Pinto, and Gemma Molero, physiological breeding for climate change / Matthew Reynolds
  • Adaptive wild cereal genomic resources for crop improvement / Eviatar Nevo
  • Genome engineering techniques-opportunities and challenges / Wendy Harwood
  • The problem of insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide resistance in agricultural crop pests / Michael J. Christoffers and Robert P. Sabba
  • Rethinking water on a growing, hungry planet / Kate A. Brauman
  • Livestock impact on biodiversity / Amy E. Young, Luke T. Macaulay, Stephanie R. Larson, and Alison L. Van Eenennaam
  • Agriculture and pollution : sharing the crowded two-way street / David I. Gustafson and Russell L. Jones
  • The impact of agriculture on global biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm and Varsha Vijay.

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