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Population, agriculture, and biodiversity : problems and prospects / editors, Perry Gustafson, Peter Raven, Paul Ehrlich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2020Copyright date: �2020Description: 1 online resource (xix, 398 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826274403
  • 0826274404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Population, agriculture, and biodiversityDDC classification:
  • 338.1/9 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .P627 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Population, resources, and the environment : the situation in 2019 / Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich -- Food for 10 billion : possibilities and probabilities / Nina V. Fedoroff -- Trade's contribution to global food security / Kym Anderson -- Feeding a world in the wake of climate change and resource constraints : selecting an appropriate farm-level response strategy / James N. Blignaut and Avi Perevolotsky -- Climate change and food security / Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali -- Globalized agriculture and tropical deforestation / Derek Byerlee -- Advances in potential yield of grain crops / Tony Fischer -- Sivakumar Sukumaran, Francisco Pinto, and Gemma Molero, physiological breeding for climate change / Matthew Reynolds -- Adaptive wild cereal genomic resources for crop improvement / Eviatar Nevo -- Genome engineering techniques-opportunities and challenges / Wendy Harwood -- The problem of insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide resistance in agricultural crop pests / Michael J. Christoffers and Robert P. Sabba -- Rethinking water on a growing, hungry planet / Kate A. Brauman -- Livestock impact on biodiversity / Amy E. Young, Luke T. Macaulay, Stephanie R. Larson, and Alison L. Van Eenennaam -- Agriculture and pollution : sharing the crowded two-way street / David I. Gustafson and Russell L. Jones -- The impact of agriculture on global biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm and Varsha Vijay.
Summary: "This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our survival on earth possible. Those relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them are increasingly blocking our chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Population, resources, and the environment : the situation in 2019 / Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich -- Food for 10 billion : possibilities and probabilities / Nina V. Fedoroff -- Trade's contribution to global food security / Kym Anderson -- Feeding a world in the wake of climate change and resource constraints : selecting an appropriate farm-level response strategy / James N. Blignaut and Avi Perevolotsky -- Climate change and food security / Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali -- Globalized agriculture and tropical deforestation / Derek Byerlee -- Advances in potential yield of grain crops / Tony Fischer -- Sivakumar Sukumaran, Francisco Pinto, and Gemma Molero, physiological breeding for climate change / Matthew Reynolds -- Adaptive wild cereal genomic resources for crop improvement / Eviatar Nevo -- Genome engineering techniques-opportunities and challenges / Wendy Harwood -- The problem of insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide resistance in agricultural crop pests / Michael J. Christoffers and Robert P. Sabba -- Rethinking water on a growing, hungry planet / Kate A. Brauman -- Livestock impact on biodiversity / Amy E. Young, Luke T. Macaulay, Stephanie R. Larson, and Alison L. Van Eenennaam -- Agriculture and pollution : sharing the crowded two-way street / David I. Gustafson and Russell L. Jones -- The impact of agriculture on global biodiversity / Stuart L. Pimm and Varsha Vijay.

"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the biodiversity that collectively makes our survival on earth possible. Those relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them are increasingly blocking our chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet"-- Provided by publisher.

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