Bibliograph

One billion hungry, can we feed the world?, Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah

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One billion hungry, can we feed the world?, Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-427) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One billion hungry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

785722038

Responsibility statement

Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah

Sub title

can we feed the world?

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

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?

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