Climate's Impact on Food Supplies : Strategies and Technologies for Climate- Defensive Food Production

Slater, Lloyd E.

Routledge（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367018771
• DDC分類 338.19

Full Description

Global concern about the impact of climatic variability on food supplies has been growing since 1963 when a major crop failure in the Soviet Union ended a long period of abundant, low-cost surplus grain. Since then a number of sizable crop shortfalls and food supply emergencies throughout the world have encouraged the study of climate-food interact

Contents

About the Series -- Introduction -- Viewing the Climate/Food Interaction -- Climate's Impact on Food Supplies: Can It Be Identified? -- Climate, Food and Society -- Uses of Climatic Knowledge in the Food Systems of Developing Countries -- Climate-Defensive Policies to Assure Food Supplies -- Botswana's Food: A Case of Livestock versus Climate -- Case Studies of the Multinational Corporation as a Food/Climate Buffer -- Reducing Climate's Impact -- Three Approaches to Reducing Climate's Impact on Food Supplies -- The Promise of Food and Climate Information Systems -- A Microecological View of Arid Land Agriculture -- Technologies and Strategies in Weatherproofing Crop Production -- New Options for Climate-Defensive Food Production -- Synthetic Foods: Eliminating the Climate Factor