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Sustainable food production

By Barry A. Costa-Pierce , Korneel Vandenbroucke , Dr Michael Metzlaff (auth.) , Paul Christou , Roxana Savin , Ignacy Misztal , C. Bruce A. Whitelaw (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2013
ISBN
9781461457978, 1461457971
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-5797-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35869498 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
1869\1896
Time added
2013-06-23 18:00:00
Agriculture; Food Science; Sustainable Development

Description

Population growth in the coming decades will put severe pressure on human food, animal feed, and fiber production from both land and ocean ecosystems. Environmental sustainability and social justice are increasingly important elements in debates on how to ensure adequate food for a growing global population. Gathering approximately 90 peer-reviewed entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Sustainable Food Production provides comprehensive coverage of this vital area of current research. Sections on animal breeding and genetics for food, crop science and technology, ocean farming and sustainable aquaculture science and technology, and transgenic livestock for food discuss state-of-the-art scientific advances, and place them in their proper scientific, environmental, ethical, socio-economic, and political contexts.

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