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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...
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World Scientific
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 advancing productivity in perpetuity without ecological harm. Science and Sustainable Food Security shows many methods of linking ecological security with livelihood security, and provides a scientific basis for entering an era of biohappiness based on the sustainable and equitable use of biodivers. | ||
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