| Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects Contributor(s): Dyson, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415119758 ISBN-13: 9780415119757 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: While fertility rates in the post-industrial world have fallen below replacement levels, the birth rate and survival rates in the developing world are escalating rapidly. Changes in agricultural technology, food production and consumption patterns, as well as the global economic system itself, have created an unstable food production system worldwide. "Population and Food" examines trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity into the 21st Century. Synthesizing a mass of statistical data and a wealth of case material, this book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth. Considering likely future trends in climate, land resources, water availability, farm imputs and technnological innovation, the author argues that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the 21st than in the 20th Century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 363.8 |
| LCCN: 95-38227 |
| Series: Global Environmental Change |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.52" W x 8.54" (0.71 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century. |