| Description |
1 online resource (369 pages) |
| Series |
Earthscan Food and Agriculture |
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Earthscan food and agriculture.
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| Contents |
Food production and nature conservation- Front Cover; Food production and nature conservation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication ; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: Food is disconnected from nature; Chapter 1: Introduction: food production and nature conservation: conflicts and solutions; The history of agriculture; The challenge; The opportunity; Outline of the book; References; PART II: The future challenge for food security and nature conservation |
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Chapter 2: Feeding the 10 billion within the Sustainable Development Goals framework1 Introduction; 2 Global food security and the SDGs framework; 3 Sustainable agri-food systems; 4 Global climate policy impacts on food security; 5 Pro-poor national policies and investments; 6 International actions to enhance food security; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Limits to crop production; Introduction; Plant function types and their interaction with resource; Limitations by climate and soil; Considerations of area and external materials needed to support yield |
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Conclusions: where is the emphasis in raising productivity?References; PART III: Approaches to protecting nature and producing more food; Chapter 4: Can a nature reserve help feed a family? Protected areas and food security; Introduction; Choosing sites for protected areas; The wider benefits of protected areas to food security; Food production in protected areas; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Protected areas, ecosystem services, and food production; 1 Introduction; 2 Biodiversity, food production, and PAs; 3 Ecosystem services provided by PAs |
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4 Improving the interactions of PAs, ecosystem services, and food production5 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 6: Agricultural intensification and diversity for reconciling production and environment: the role of integrated crop-livestock systems; Introduction; Grassland ecosystems for regulating bio-geochemical cycles and environmental fluxes; Grassland-arable crop association as a pathway to sustainable agro-ecosystems; Towards integrated crop-livestock systems: opportunities and locking effects due to socio-economic aspects; Conclusions; References |
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Chapter 7: A landscape approach to integrating food production and nature conservationIntroduction; The dynamic structure of biodiversity at the landscape level; It is the quality of the matrix that matters; The reason people are hungry has nothing to do with the quantity of food produced; Any future need to increase yields should be focused on smallholders; Conclusions; Notes; PART IV: A new agenda for food production and nature conservation; Chapter 8: New technologies: costs and benefits for food production in contrasting agro-ecological production systems; Introduction |
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Contribution of technologies in case study systems |
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Print version record |
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Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
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Food supply -- Environmental aspects
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Food security -- Environmental aspects
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Nature conservation.
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Environmental protection.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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environmental protection.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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Environmental protection
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Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
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Food supply -- Environmental aspects
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Nature conservation
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Sustainable agriculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prins, Herbert H. T
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Squire, Geoff R
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| ISBN |
9781317509530 |
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1317509536 |
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