Science and sustainable food security : selected papers of M S Swaminathan
This book provides a roadmap for achieving sustainable agricultural advance and food security in an era of climate change and global economic melt-down. The contents include a description of the paradigm shift under the leadership of the author, from a green to an ever-green revolution necessary for...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific ,
2010
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| Series: | IISc centenary lecture series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Food security and economic development - how science is applied to solve problems of poverty, drought and famine
- 2. Science and food security - how scienceis used to generate efficient and optimal agricultural outputs
- 3. Food security and ecological balance - how the gains of green revolution are impacted by climate change, how science will be helpful in ensuring sustainable food security, green revolution to ever-green revolution - a roadmap