Alan Wild

Soils, Land and Food

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how technological advances in soil and land management can help to increase food production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780521820653
• ISBN-10: 0521820650
• Artikelnr.: 29338474

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.