Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity

Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity
Author: J. Perry Gustafson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0826274404

This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are highly intertwined, and changes in each of them steadily decrease humankind’s chances to achieve environmental stability on our fragile planet. The world population is projected to be nine to ten billion by 2050, signaling the need to increase world food production by more than 70 percent on the same amount of land currently under production—and this without further damaging our fragile environment. The essays in this collection, written by experts for laypersons, present the problems we face with clarity and assess our prospects for solving them, calling for action but holding out viable solutions.

Feed Or Feedback

Feed Or Feedback
Author: A. D. Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Declaring, "any system in a state of positive feedback will destroy itself," Brown (of The Australian Conservation Society) argues that the two major problems driving environmental danger are the nature of the interaction between humans and their food supply and the "essentially 'linear' and irrever

Feeding the Ten Billion

Feeding the Ten Billion
Author: L. T. Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521646857

A unique and accessible account of the interaction between population growth and agricultural innovation.

Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries

Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries
Author: Nadia Cuffaro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134631294

In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion; fifty years later there are over 6 billion people. The demographic of this explosion has essentially occurred in the developing areas of the world. The key to understanding many contemporary development problems that have arisen from this rapid growth is in understanding the relationships between population and the economy. This book offers an analysis of such relationships, encompassing a review of the major positions in the academic debate. Population, Economic Growth and Agriculture in Less Developed Countries will serve as a useful introduction and reference tool for students, academics and all with an interest in the population debate and economics.

Population and Land in World Agriculture

Population and Land in World Agriculture
Author: Joginder Kumar
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780243308859

Excerpt from Population and Land in World Agriculture: Recent Trends and Relationships In the fourth and final part, a general theory of the growth of the agricultural labor force is presented. Three hypotheses to explain the growth of the agricultural population are developed on the basis of the material presented in the earlier sections and other evidence, and then tested by means of regression analysis. A substantive discussion of the regres sion results leads us to a generally satisfactory explanation of the growth of the agricultural labor force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.