World Food Outlook

Klappentext A substantive and reasoned evaluation of the world food situation, accessible to a wide audience. Zusammenfassung This volume is a substantive and reasoned evaluation of the world food situation. The authors show that things have improved dramatically over the past three decades! and will probably continue to do so. They provide a much needed and reasoned view on a subject that is too often treated emotionally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The world food problem; 2. The price of food; 3. Gains in consumption levels; 4. World food production increases; 5. Population growth and food demand; 6. The quantity and quality of the resource base; 7. Raising yields; 8. Changing consumption patterns; 9. Simulating the future world food situation; 10. The world can feed twice as many in twenty years; 11. A robust prediction?; 12. Africa presents a special challenge at the turn of the century; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald C. Duncan, Merlinda D. Ingco, Donald O. Mitchell, Donald O. (The World Bank) Ingco Mitchell, Donald O. Ingco Mitchell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.1997
• EAN: 9780521589840
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58984-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Trade and Development
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches