Alan Wild

Soils, Land and Food

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major challenge of the twenty-first century is to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. This book follows the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. Alan Wild shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs, and improving economic conditions all help to increase food production. He emphasizes the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780521527590
• ISBN-10: 0521527597
• Artikelnr.: 22283698

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Managing land for food production in the twenty-first century: an outline
2. Natural resources for sustainable development
3. The development of agriculture and systems of land management
4. Maintaining and improving soil fertility
5. Land degradation and its control
6. Raising yields: use of fertilisers
7. Raising yields: water for rainfed crops and irrigation
8. Managing change for land use
9. Increasing and sustaining agricultural production
10. Increasing agricultural production: examples of Africa, India and China
11. Prospects, uncertainties and summary
References
Index.