One billion hungry [electronic resource] : can we feed the world? / Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah.
2012
S494.5.I5 C663 2012eb
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Title
One billion hungry [electronic resource] : can we feed the world? / Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah.
Author
Conway, Gordon.
ISBN
9780801466083 (electronic bk.)
0801451337
0801478022
9780801451331
9780801478024
0801451337
0801478022
9780801451331
9780801478024
Imprint
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 439, [9] p.) : ill, maps.
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S494.5.I5 C663 2012eb
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."--Back cover.
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"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.
Rev. ed. of: : The doubly green revolution : food for all in the twenty-first century / Gordon Conway.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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?
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?