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100			_aSmil Vaclav
245			_aFeeding the world
245			_bA challenge for the twenty-first century
260			_aLondon _bThe MIT Press _c2012
300			_a360P _bix _cPB
500			_aAgricultural Productivity
500			_aFood Supply
505			_aContents Reasons for Concern 1 Demographic Imperatives 6 Dietary Transitions 8 End of an Era? 11 Appraising the Basics 23 Photosynthesis and Crop Productivity 25 Land Water and Nutrients 30 Agroecosystems and Biodiversity 52 Consuming the Harvests 181 Harvests and Postharvest Losses 182 How Much Food Do We Have? 188 How Much Food Do We Eat? 196 How Much Food Do We Need? 211 Human Energetics 215 Protein Needs 227 Comparisons and Implications 235 Environmental Change and Agroecosystems 65 Changing Soils 67 Environmental Pollution 80 What Could Climate Change Do? 90 Opportunities for Higher Cropping Efficiencies 105 More Efficient Fertilization 108 Better Use of Water 125 Precision Farming 135 Rationalizing Animal Food Production 141 Feeding Efficiencies and Resource Claims 145 Opportunities in Milk and Meat Production 163 Aquacultural Possibilities 171 Searching for Optimum Diets 249 Nutritional Transitions 250 Nutrition Health and Disease 264 Optimized Diets 276 If China Could Do It 291 Chinas Predicament 292 Available Resources and Existing Inefficiencies 299 Realistic Solutions 309 References 317 Index 353 Copyright
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