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Author Swaminathan, M. S. (Monkombu Sambasivan), author.

Title Combating hunger and achieving food security / M.S. Swaminathan.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 167 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "Discusses the major causes of chronic and hidden hunger and emphasizes on the need to redesign farming system to increase food production"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167).
Contents Genesis and growth of the yield revolution in wheat -- Our agircultural heritage -- Shaping our agicultural destiny -- Thrust on farm revival -- Nutir-farm movement -- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture -- Food losses and food waste -- Rice in zero hunger challenge -- Monsoon management -- Importance of ecological conservation -- Caring for ecology and heritage -- Conserving biodiversity -- Overcoming hidden hunger through aquaculture -- Biofuels -- the way to go -- Food sescurity -- Vigilance for sustainable food security -- Food securit and social protection -- Food security and its role -- Sustaining the livestock revolution -- Challenges in the year of science -- Agirculture and humanism -- Fostering the science of science communication -- Olympic move for saving children -- Youth: the agents of change -- Role of women in agricultural production -- Know-how to do-how -- From Bengal famine to right to food -- Financial institutions and fighting food inflation -- Public good research in agriculture -- The future of Indian agriculture.
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Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
India.
Agriculture -- India.
Agriculture.
Food supply -- India.
Food supply.
Food security -- India.
Farm management -- India.
Food security.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Farm management.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Other Form: Print version: Swaminathan, M.S. (Monkombu Sambasivan). Combating hunger and achieving food security 9781107123113 (DLC) 2015011472 (OCoLC)906447602
ISBN 9781316389485 (electronic book)
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9781107123113 (hardback)
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