Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects
Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century.
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Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects
Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century.
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Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects

Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects

by Tim Dyson
Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects

Population and Food: Global Trends and Future Prospects

by Tim Dyson

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Overview

Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people of the world will be better fed in the twenty-first than in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415119757
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/04/1996
Series: Global Environmental Change Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim Dyson is Professor of Population Studies at the london School of Economics. He has conducted extensive research on India's demography, is a past president of the British Society for Population Studies, and is an editor of the journal "Population Studies".

Table of Contents

1. Pessimists and Optimists 2. Population and Food Today 3. Population and Food - Recent Trends 4. Exploring the Future: Demand and Supply 5. Exploring the Future: Potentials and Constraints 6. Exploring the Future: Regional Vignettes 7. Conclusions, Forecasts, Caveats, Tempered Hope
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