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" Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : "
edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].
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623629
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Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : : a challenge to science /\ edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].
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New York :: Oxford University Press in association with the Rank Prize Funds,, 1998.
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xv, 280 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0195113128 (alk. paper)
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: 9780195113129 (alk. paper)
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Based on papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds held in Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom, Dec. 6-9, 1996.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part 1: The challenge -- 1. Needs for food: are we asking too much? / J. C. Waterlow -- 2. The Economics of Food / Partha Dasgupta -- Part 2: Basic resources and constraints -- 3. Land resources and constraints to crop production / D.J. Greenland, P.J. Gregory, and P.H. Nye -- 4. Water and food in developing countries in the next century / M. Yudelman -- 5. Energy for agriculture in the 21st century / B.A. Stout -- Part 3: Applications of science to increase yield -- 6. Greater crop production: whence and whither? / L.T. Evans -- 7. How and when will plant biotechnology help? / Marc van Montagu -- 8. What limits the efficiency of photosynthesis and can there be beneficial improvements? / J. Barber -- 9. Rubisco: the key to improved crop production for a world population of more than eight billion people? / S.P. Long -- 10. Increasing rice productivity by manipulation of starch biosynthesis during seed development / Sang-Bong Choi, et. al.
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11. Improving yield potential by modification of plant type and through exploitation of heterosis / G.S. Khush, S. Peng, and S.S. Virmani -- 12. Developing crops with resistance to salinity and drought stress / D.P.S. Verma -- 13. Prospects for engineering enhanced durable disease resistance in crops / Chris Lamb -- 14. A systems perspective on post-harvest losses / M. Gill and N. Poulter -- Part IV: The role of animal products in feeding eight billion people -- 15. Significance of dietary protein source in human nutrition: animal and/or plant proteins? / Vernon R. Young, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, and Peter L. Pellett -- 16. Competition between livestock and man for nutrients: let ruminants eat grass / H.A. Fitzhugh -- 17. Animals and the human food chain / R.B. Heap -- Part 5: Social Aspects -- 18. Practical innovation: partnerships between scientists and farmers / G.R. Conway -- 19. Productivity, poverty alleviation and food security / Donald L. Winkelmann.
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Food supply, Congresses.
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Agricultural innovations, Congresses.
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HD9000.5.F34 1998
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Waterlow, J. C., (John Conrad)
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Rank Prize Funds.
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