Vision Infinity for Food Security Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows!

This book builds on authors’ perspective on food security gathered from their global experience of working with farmers in their fields. They are standing back and looking at the global food security situation as a whole through squinted eyes and are concerned about vulnerability and fragility of fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sharma, Shashi B., Wightman, John A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:SpringerBriefs in Agriculture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Is there enough food?
  • 3: Food security – how did we get to where we are now?
  • 4: Are there fundamental constraints to food security?
  • 5: Biosecure global food value chains
  • 6: Exploit additional food sources
  • 7: Eliminate food losses
  • 8: Rethinking agro-ecosystems and diversity with farming systems
  • 9: In search of answers – tying it all together
  • 10: Way forward