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Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050
Brian Gardner
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Description for Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050
Paperback. By 2050 the world will face the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people in the face of climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food-growing land and resources. This is the first scholarly yet accessible account of the global food situation, synthesising the key issues in one volume. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 bw illus. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFCV; JFFR; KCB; RNFF; TVF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 194 x 13. Weight in Grams: 506.
By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people? What will be the impact of food shortages and high prices on areas in crisis such as sub-Sahara Africa? Where will future production growth come from? And how do we balance the need for environmental protection with sustainable agricultural ... Read more
By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people? What will be the impact of food shortages and high prices on areas in crisis such as sub-Sahara Africa? Where will future production growth come from? And how do we balance the need for environmental protection with sustainable agricultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857851550
SKU
V9780857851550
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About Brian Gardner
Brian Gardner has been analysing, writing about and commenting on European and international agriculture and food policy developments for more than thirty years. Notable publications include European Agriculture: Policies, Production and Trade, Growing Pains: New Europe and the CAP in The Perfect Union? New Europe and the EU (edited by Roger Gough) and A Guide to the ... Read more
Reviews for Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050
A phenomenally important book. It pulls together the data to show whether or not agriculture can meet hungry populations in both the short and longer term future.
Melanie DuPois, Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA In Global Food Futures, Brian Gardner sets out to present a scholarly, balanced approach to the contentious area of ... Read more
Melanie DuPois, Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA In Global Food Futures, Brian Gardner sets out to present a scholarly, balanced approach to the contentious area of ... Read more