Q1 Agriculture

摘要

Conway, Gordon. One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? With Katy Wilson. Foreword by Rajiv Shah. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Comstock Publishing Associates, 2012. Pp. xvii, 439. $75.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8014-5133-1, cloth; 978-0-8014-7802-4, pbk. JEL 2013-0268 Explores issues critical to the global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security and considers whether it is possible to end endemic global hunger. Discusses acute and chronic crises; what hunger is; the green revolution; the political economy of food security; a doubly green revolution; sustainable intensification; appropriate technology; creating markets; designer crops; the livestock revolution; farmers as innovators; controlling pests; rooted in the soil; sustained by water; adapting to climate change; reducing greenhouse gases; and whether we can feed the world. Conway is Professor of International Development at Imperial College, London. Index.