A Series of papers on world food issues
Material type: TextLanguage: En Publication details: Ithaca, NY (USA) : Cornell U, 1979Description: vpSubject(s): DDC classification:- 82-708765
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ill. Includes bibliographies
To provide information on world food issues and to consider these issues as objectively as possible in nonthechnical language, a series of 16 papers are included. The first seven discuss natural resources (land, climate, water management, crop improvement and protection, the role of animals, and finally energy use) and their relation to food issues. The next seven examine the relationship between policy issues and human nutrition, focusing on nutrition, technology transfer, education and extension, land tenure, export versus domestic production, and international food aid. With rare exception, the moral and ethical questions relating to world food
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Cornell University (USA). Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues|COMOD
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