1st Edition
World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030 An FAO Study
Edited By Jelle Bruinsma
Copyright 2003
444 Pages
by
Routledge
444 Pages
by
Routledge
444 Pages
by
Routledge
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This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry. This analysis forms the basis for a more detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and... Read more
Foreword by the Director-General of FAO * Explanatory Notes * Contributors to the Book * Introduction and Overview * Prospects for Food and Nutrition * Prospects for Aggregate Agriculture * and Major Commodity Groups * Crop Production and Natural Resource Use * Livestock Production * Forestry * Fisheries * Agriculture in Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development * Agricultural Trade, Trade Policies and the Global Food System * Globalization in Food and Agriculture * Selected Issues in Agricultural Technology * Agriculture and the Environment: Changing Pressures, Solutions and Trade-Offs * Climate Change and Agriculture: Physical and Human Dimensions * Appendixes * References * Acronyms
Biography
Jelle Bruinsma
'An awesome resource.' Future Survey 'A remarkable achievement' Quarterly journal of International Agriculture 'A valuable source of information on the future of agriculture, gives a balanced coverage of several current issues.' Experimental Agriculture 'This volume represents a major statement of mainstream professional thinking and analysis about global and regional food related issues' Land Use Policy 'It merits a place on the shelves of all comprehensive agricultural economics reference libraries.' Journal of Agricultural Economics 'The current study is even richer than its predecessors.' The World Economy 'This publication represents the FAO at its best' Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 2004 '[It] will be valuable for many years to anyone involved in agriculture in the widest possible sense' Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 2004 'This is an exceptional volume and as comprehensice as one would expect from teh FAO.' Scientific and Medical Network Review, Spring 2004.
