Abstract:Part 1 Themes and issues: the rise in productive capacity visions of the future concepts and approaches role of resource development and management volume organization. Part 2 Resources available for ...Part 1 Themes and issues: the rise in productive capacity visions of the future concepts and approaches role of resource development and management volume organization. Part 2 Resources available for agriculture: agro-ecosystems crop distribution climate and crop productivity soils for plant growth comparisons of environmental quality arable land and water resources. Part 3 Trends in world food production: growth of population and food production changes in consumption, trade and nutrition components of growth in agricultural production. Part 4 Prospective studies of food and agriculture: resource/ecological studies - Clark, Revelle and Buringh socio-economic studies - Global 2000, Agriculture Towards 2000 resource-economic studies. Part 5 Population pressures and the demand for land resources: background on population and income growth some implications for agriculture competition for agricultural land process of agricultural land conversion - United States, Canada, Britain indirect effects of urbanization on agricultural lands. Part 6 Water resources and agriculture: irrigated lands regional examples of supply/demand relations - Egypt, United States, India ecological aspects of irrigation human dimensions of irrigation management issues - irrigation preformance, system design and operation, institutional control and decision making. Part 7 Land degradation: physical/biological loss - measures of soil erosion, regional estimates of soil erosion - North America, Asia, Africa, Tropical America, Soviet Union, causes of erosion and erosion effects, soil conservation chemical change desertification. Part 8 Climatic variations and food production relations: weather and climate instability and change in climate adaptability of agricultural systems. Part 9 Role of energy in agricultural development: energy relations, intensities and components of energy use productivity/efficiency issues supply/demand relations yield response and productivity environmental effects energy alternatives - fertilizers, field operations, irrigation, pesticides, organic farming and intermediate technology. Part 10 Conclusions: challenges of the food problem a synthesis of demand and supply relations strategies for sustainable development.Read More
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Language: en
Type: book
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