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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 439, 9. pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801466106
  • 9780801451331
Other title:
  • 1 billion hungry
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • S494 .O543 2012
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Contents:
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?
Subject: "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."

Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

"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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