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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
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Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9251382980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-06-22
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9251068712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book offers a rich toolkit of relevant, adoptable ecosystem-based practices that can help the world's 500 million smallholder farm families achieve higher productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency while enhancing natural capital.
Author: Manjit S. Kang
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1482282917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Understand sustainable development from economic, ecological, and social perspectives As world population continues to increase, the need grows for a safe, sustainable supply of food. Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future provides the latest research results and vital information on the process of p
Author: M. P. Reynolds
Publisher: CIMMYT
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9706480773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Z. Bedo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 757
ISBN-13: 940173674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wheat breeders have achieved significant results over the last fifty years in research on mankind's one of the most important crops. Classical genetic and breeding methods, far broader international cooperation than was experienced in earlier periods, and improvements in agronomic techniques have led to previously unimaginable development in the utilisation of wheat for human consumption. The contribution of wheat researchers is particularly noteworthy since these results have been achieved at a time when the world population has grown extremely dynamically. Despite this demographic explosion, of a proportion never previously experienced, thousands of millions of people have been saved from starvation, thus avoiding unpredictable social consequences and situations irreconcilable with human dignity. Despite these developments in many regions of the world food supplies are still uncertain and the increase in the world's wheat production has not kept pace with the population increase during the last decade. Due to the evils of civilisation and the pollution of the environment there is a constant decline in the per capita area of land suitable for agricultural production. Based on population estimates for 2030, the present wheat yield of around 600 million tonnes will have to be increased to almost 1000 million tonnes if food supplies are to be maintained at the present level.