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_bC767o 2012
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100 1 _aConway, Gordon,
_d1938-
245 1 0 _aOne billion hungry :
_bcan we feed the world? /
_cGordon Conway with Katy Wilson ; foreword by Rajiv Shah.
260 _aIthaca, N.Y. :
_bComstock Pub. Associates,
_c2012.
300 _axvii, 439 p. :
_bill. (some col.) ;
_c24 cm.
500 _a"Published with the support of Agriculture for Impact, Imperial College, London."
500 _aRev. ed. of: : The doubly green revolution : food for all in the twenty-first century / Gordon Conway.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aAcute 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 -- Conclusion : can we feed the world?.
520 _aIn One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security. He expands the discussion begun in his influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the essential combination of increased food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet.
650 0 _aFood supply
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aFood security
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aAgricultural innovations
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aGreen Revolution
_zDeveloping countries.
650 4 _aAbastecimiento de alimentos
_zPaíses en desarrollo.
650 4 _aSeguridad alimenticia
_zPaíses en desarrollo.
650 4 _aInnovaciones agrícolas
_zPaíses en desarrollo.
650 4 _aRevolución verde
_zPaíses en desarrollo.
700 1 _aWilson, Katy.
700 1 _aConway, Gordon.
_tDoubly green revolution.
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