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Looking ahead in world food and agriculture : perspectives to 2050

Title: Looking ahead in world food and agriculture : perspectives to 2050 / edited by Piero Conforti.
Publication: Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011.

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xviii, 539 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Fuelled by the turbulence of world agricultural markets, the debate on relations among agriculture, food security, natural resources, population growth and economic development has been revamped over the last few years. how are growth prospects and the expected evolution of per capita income in the long term going to affect the agricultural and food economy? Are the natural resources available, such as land and water, sufficient to feed a growing population? What role can economic incentives and technical change play in shaping resource use and supply? What are the priority areas where investment and research should be directed? How may the use of agricultural products in biofuel production affect markets? And how can climate change affect production possibilities and markets? Around these questions, in 2009, FAO's Economic and Social Development Department organized a Forum and a High-Level Expert Meeting on How to Feed The World in 2050. This volume follows up on that initiative, by gathering updated versions of technical materials prepared for the occasion, along with further work. the book seeks to sustain the debate on the future of the global agricultural and food economy. Its contents were designed to interest both a technical audience and a wider range of professionals working around the world in areas related to agriculture, in both public and private institutions."--Pub. desc.

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"Agricultural Development Economic Division, Economic and Social Development Department"--Cover.
Collected essays.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

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Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Introduction / Piero Conforti -- World food and agriculture to 2030/2050 revisited : highlights and view four years later / Nikos Alexandratos -- World agriculture in a dynamically changing environment : IFPRI's long-term outlook for food and agriculture / siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant -- How can climate change and the development of bioenergy alter the long-term outlook for food and agriculture? / Günther Fischer -- Poverty, growth and inequality over the next 50 years / Evan Hillebrand -- Macroeconomic environment and commodity markets : a longer-term outlook / Andrew Burns and John Baffes -- The resources outlook : by how much do land, water and crop yields need to increase by 2050? / Jelle Bruinsma -- Investment in developing countries' food and agriculture : assessing agricultural capital stocks and their impact on productivity / Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel ... [et al.] -- Capital requirements for agriculture in developing countries to 2050 / Josef Schmidhuber, Jelle Burinsma and Gerold Boedeker -- Setting meaningful investment targets in agricultural research and development : challenges, opportunities and fiscal realities / Nienke Beintema and Howard Elliott -- Can technology deliver on the yield challenge to 2050? / tony R. Rischer, Derek Byerlee and Gregory Owen Edmeades -- Critical evaluation of selected projections / Nikos Alexandratos -- Challenges and policies for the world agricultural and food economy in the 2050 perspective / Piero Conforti and Alexander Sarris.

ISBN

9789251069035
9251069034

LCCN

2011531925

OCLC

ocn768167499
768167499
SCSB-1646991

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Princeton University Library