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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? |
| 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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Agricultural innovations -- Developing countries.
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Agricultural innovations. |
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Developing countries. |
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Green Revolution -- Developing countries.
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Green Revolution. |
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Food supply -- Developing countries.
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Food supply. |
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Food security -- Developing countries.
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Food security. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Wilson, Katy.
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Conway, Gordon.
Doubly green revolution.
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1 billion hungry |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Conway, Gordon. One billion hungry. Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801451331 0801451337 (DLC) 2012014403 (OCoLC)785722038 |
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9780801466083 (electronic book) |
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0801466083 (electronic book) |
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9780801451331 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0801451337 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780801478024 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0801478022 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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