Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want
Author | : Andrew Chernocke Pearse |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
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Author | : Andrew Chernocke Pearse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
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Author | : Andrew Chernocke Pearse |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The new technology and the peasants; Political motors of technological innovation; Communal tenure structures and an African experiment; The dynamics of bi-modal structures; Promotion of the new technology; The economics of farm size; Changes in Asian tenacy; The critical issues; Coping with the talents-efect; Choosing the right policy; Appropriate technology.
Author | : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Agricultural innovations |
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Total Pages | : 995 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : John J. Phelps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Gordon Conway |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0801466105 |
Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further challenges.In 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. Conway addresses a series of urgent questions about global hunger: • How we will feed a growing global population in the face of a wide range of adverse factors, including climate change? • What contributions can the social and natural sciences make in finding solutions?• And how can we engage both government and the private sector to apply these solutions and achieve significant impact in the lives of the poor?Conway succeeds in sharing his informed optimism about our collective ability to address these fundamental challenges if we use technology paired with sustainable practices and strategic planning.Beginning with a definition of hunger and how it is calculated, and moving through issues topically both detailed and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas. Drawing on the latest scientific research and the results of projects around the world, Conway addresses the concepts and realities of our global food needs: the legacy of the Green Revolution; the impact of market forces on food availability; the promise and perils of genetically modified foods; agricultural innovation in regard to crops, livestock, pest control, soil, and water; and the need to both adapt to and slow the rate of climate change. One Billion Hungry will be welcomed by all readers seeking a multifaceted understanding of our global food supply, food security, international agricultural development, and sustainability.
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2005-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0299192431 |
First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
Author | : Peter Pringle |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1439103844 |
For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics. A handful of corporate "life science" giants, such as Monsanto, are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorporate ecowarriors like Greenpeace. And yet the possible benefits of biotech agriculture to our food supply are too vital to be left to either partisan. The companies claim to be leading a new agricultural revolution that will save the world with crops modified to survive frost, drought, pests, and plague. The greens warn that "playing God" with plant genes is dangerous. It could create new allergies, upset ecosystems, destroy biodiversity, and produce uncontrollable mutations. Worst of all, the antibiotech forces say, a single food conglomerate could end up telling us what to eat. In Food, Inc., acclaimed journalist Peter Pringle shows how both sides in this overheated conflict have made false promises, engaged in propaganda science, and indulged in fear-mongering. In this urgent dispatch, he suggests that a fertile partnership between consumers, corporations, scientists, and farmers could still allow the biotech harvest to reach its full potential in helping to overcome the problem of world hunger, providing nutritious food and keeping the environment healthy.
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Publisher | : Running Press Kids |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2013-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0762447214 |
A young boy plants a seed that, with water, sunlight, care, and patience, grows into a strong, tall tree.