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One billion hungry : can we feed the world?
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Title
One billion hungry : can we feed the world? / Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah.
ISBN
9780801451331 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801451337 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801478024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801478022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2012.
Physical Description
xvii, 439 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Published with the support of Agriculture for Impact, Imperial College, London."
Rev. ed. of: : The doubly green revolution : food for all in the twenty-first century / Gordon Conway.
Summary
"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 influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the essential combination of increased food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet."--Publisher's website.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-427) and index.
Contents
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
Conclusion : can we feed the world?.
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