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One billion hungry [electronic resource] : can we feed the world? / Gordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah

Author
Conway, Gordon
Additional Titles
1 billion hungry
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Additional Creators
Wilson, Katy and Conway, Gordon
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Contents
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?.
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ISBN
9780801466083 (electronic bk.)
0801466083 (electronic bk.)
Note
"Published with the support of Agriculture for Impact, Imperial College, London."
Rev. ed. of: : The doubly green revolution : food for all in the twenty-first century / Gordon Conway.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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