1st Edition

Climate's Impact On Food Supplies Strategies And Technologies For Climate- Defensive Food Production

By Lloyd E. Slater Copyright 1981
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book assesses theories of how climate influences food production and distribution, discusses how societies can contend with climate-induced food shortfalls, and explores policies and technologies that promise to reduce climate's impact on agriculture and to increase food production.

    Introduction Part 1: Viewing the Climate/Food Interaction 1. Climate's Impact on Food Supplies: Can It Be Identified? 2. Climate, Food and Society 3. Uses of Climatic Knowledge in the Food Systems of Developing Countries 4. Climate-Defensive Policies to Assure Food Supplies 5. Botswana's Food: A Case of Livestock versus Climate 6. Case Studies of the Multinational Corporation as a Food/Climate Buffer Part 2: Reducing Climate's Impact 7. Three Approaches to Reducing Climate's Impact on Food Supplies 8. The Promise of Food and Climate Information Systems 9. A Microecological View of Arid Land Agriculture 10. Technologies and Strategies in Weatherproofing Crop Production 11. New Options for Climate-Defensive Food Production 12. Synthetic Foods: Eliminating the Climate Factor

    Biography

    Lloyd E. Slater