Soils, land, and food : managing the land during the twenty-first century / Alan Wild.

ISBN:

9780511078484

9780511076916

9780511815577

9781280955907

Title:

Soils, land, and food : managing the land during the twenty-first century / Alan Wild.

Author:

Wild, Alan.

Personal Author:

Wild, Alan.

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Managing land for food production in the twenty-first century: an outline -- Natural resources for sustainable land management -- The development of agriculture and systems of land management -- Maintaining and improving soil fertility -- Land degradation and its control -- Raising yields: use of fertilizers -- Raising yields: water for rainfed crops and irrigation -- Managing change of land use: seven examples -- Increasing and sustaining agricultural production -- Increasing agricultural production: the examples of Africa, India and China -- Prospects and uncertainties.

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Subject Term:

Soil management.

Soil fertility.

Land use -- Management.

Food supply.

Soil.

Agriculture -- methods.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2003

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Summary

A major challenge of the twenty-first century will be to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. Soils, Land and Food is a short text aimed at undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists and policy makers which describes how the use of technology in soil management can increase and sustain agricultural production. The book leads the reader through the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. It shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs and improving economic conditions can all help to increase food production. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.