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One billion hungry : can we feed the world? /

"In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security. He expands the discussion begun in his i...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Conway, Gordon (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Wilson, Katy
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acute and chronic crises
  • What is hunger?
  • The Green Revolution
  • The political economy of food security
  • A doubly green revolution
  • Sustainable intensification
  • Appropriate technology
  • Creating markets
  • Designer crops
  • The livestock revolution
  • Farmers as innovators
  • Controlling pests
  • Rooted in the soil
  • Sustained by water
  • Adapting to climate change
  • Reducing greenhouse gases
  • Can we feed the world?