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- catalog contributor b10959207.
- catalog contributor b10959208.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "11. Improving yield potential by modification of plant type and through exploitation of heterosis / G.S. Khush, S. Peng, and S.S. Virmani -- 12. Developing crops with resistance to salinity and drought stress / D.P.S. Verma -- 13. Prospects for engineering enhanced durable disease resistance in crops / Chris Lamb -- 14. A systems perspective on post-harvest losses / M. Gill and N. Poulter -- Part IV: The role of animal products in feeding eight billion people -- 15. Significance of dietary protein source in human nutrition: animal and/or plant proteins? / Vernon R. Young, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, and Peter L. Pellett -- 16. Competition between livestock and man for nutrients: let ruminants eat grass / H.A. Fitzhugh -- 17. Animals and the human food chain / R.B. Heap -- Part 5: Social Aspects -- 18. Practical innovation: partnerships between scientists and farmers / G.R. Conway -- 19. Productivity, poverty alleviation and food security / Donald L. Winkelmann.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part 1: The challenge -- 1. Needs for food: are we asking too much? / J.C. Waterlow -- 2. The Economics of Food / Partha Dasgupta -- Part 2: Basic resources and constraints -- 3. Land resources and constraints to crop production / D.J. Greenland, P.J. Gregory, and P.H. Nye -- 4. Water and food in developing countries in the next century / M. Yudelman -- 5. Energy for agriculture in the 21st century / B.A. Stout -- Part 3: Applications of science to increase yield -- 6. Greater crop production: whence and whither? / L.T. Evans -- 7. How and when will plant biotechnology help? / Marc van Montagu -- 8. What limits the efficiency of photosynthesis and can there be beneficial improvements? / J. Barber -- 9. Rubisco: the key to improved crop production for a world population of more than eight billion people? / S.P. Long -- 10. Increasing rice productivity by manipulation of starch biosynthesis during seed development / Sang-Bong Choi, et. al.".
- catalog extent "xv, 280 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195113128 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press in association with the Rank Prize Funds,".
- catalog subject "338.1/9 21".
- catalog subject "Agricultural innovations Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Food supply Congresses.".
- catalog subject "HD9000.5 .F34 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "11. Improving yield potential by modification of plant type and through exploitation of heterosis / G.S. Khush, S. Peng, and S.S. Virmani -- 12. Developing crops with resistance to salinity and drought stress / D.P.S. Verma -- 13. Prospects for engineering enhanced durable disease resistance in crops / Chris Lamb -- 14. A systems perspective on post-harvest losses / M. Gill and N. Poulter -- Part IV: The role of animal products in feeding eight billion people -- 15. Significance of dietary protein source in human nutrition: animal and/or plant proteins? / Vernon R. Young, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, and Peter L. Pellett -- 16. Competition between livestock and man for nutrients: let ruminants eat grass / H.A. Fitzhugh -- 17. Animals and the human food chain / R.B. Heap -- Part 5: Social Aspects -- 18. Practical innovation: partnerships between scientists and farmers / G.R. Conway -- 19. Productivity, poverty alleviation and food security / Donald L. Winkelmann.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part 1: The challenge -- 1. Needs for food: are we asking too much? / J.C. Waterlow -- 2. The Economics of Food / Partha Dasgupta -- Part 2: Basic resources and constraints -- 3. Land resources and constraints to crop production / D.J. Greenland, P.J. Gregory, and P.H. Nye -- 4. Water and food in developing countries in the next century / M. Yudelman -- 5. Energy for agriculture in the 21st century / B.A. Stout -- Part 3: Applications of science to increase yield -- 6. Greater crop production: whence and whither? / L.T. Evans -- 7. How and when will plant biotechnology help? / Marc van Montagu -- 8. What limits the efficiency of photosynthesis and can there be beneficial improvements? / J. Barber -- 9. Rubisco: the key to improved crop production for a world population of more than eight billion people? / S.P. Long -- 10. Increasing rice productivity by manipulation of starch biosynthesis during seed development / Sang-Bong Choi, et. al.".
- catalog title "Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people : a challenge to science / edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "text".