Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Who Will Feed China? 197 tion. Lacking basic life-supporting soil and water resources, it contains only a small percentage of th ...

198 Poverty and Hunger while the death rate climbed to 25 per 1000, leading to a decline in China’s popu- lation for one year. ( ...

Who Will Feed China? 199 As analysts attempted to calculate the consequences of population increase for cropland and water suppl ...

200 Poverty and Hunger ning programmes adopted in the mid-1970s and the echo effect of the smaller numbers born during the famin ...

Who Will Feed China? 201 Notes Overview: The Wake-up Call 1 US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) ...

202 Poverty and Hunger Another Half-billion 21 Figure 8.4 from US Bureau of the Census, as published in Francis Urban and Ray Ni ...

9 Introduction to Ecoagriculture J. McNeely and S. Scherr The Challenge: Agricultural Intensification, Rural Poverty and Biodive ...

204 Poverty and Hunger Indeed, the World Bank says that billions of people are at risk of serious food inse- curity and deepenin ...

Introduction to Ecoagriculture 205 other factors are making it increasingly difficult to maintain, much less increase, food prod ...

206 Poverty and Hunger fundamental changes also take place in the adjacent agricultural landscape. Moreo- ver, some types of wil ...

Introduction to Ecoagriculture 207 of farming on wild species and habitats. Such approaches need to be integrated more intention ...

208 Poverty and Hunger As the distinguished British ecologist Norman Myers pointed out, ‘It is in the common interest of both ag ...

10 Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries J. Pretty, A. D. Noble, D. Bossio, J. Dixon, R. E. H ...

210 Poverty and Hunger to the technology and knowledge to produce it, and has the purchasing power to acquire it. The great succ ...

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 211 Here we show the extent to which recent successful ...

212 Poverty and Hunger with 40–95 projects in each. System categories 1, 6 and 8 have 15–20 projects and category 7 has only two ...

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 213 for which there was reliable yield data showed incr ...

214 Poverty and Hunger Notes: n = 360, mean = 1.79, s.d. 0.91, median = 1.50, geometric mean = 1.64. Figure 10.1 Histogram of ch ...

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 215 low yields before intervention often showed larger ...

216 Poverty and Hunger outpacing population growth. Increasing demand for fresh water now threatens the integrity of many aquati ...