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Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops - Volume 1 Preharvest Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)
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Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops - Volume 1 Preharvest Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)
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Today, in a world with abundant food, more than 700 million people
are chro- cally undernourished. Over the next 20 years, the world's
population will probably double. The global food supply would need
to double or to triple for the larger population to be fed
adequately. Agriculture is closely linked to environmental quality
in a variety of ways, and the challenge of our generation is how to
feed a growing planet while maintaining the integrity of our
ecological life-support system. The responsibility of governments
for ensuring food security will grow proportionately with the
growth of populations, and governments bear a special
responsibility for promoting agricultural inputs. Agriculture in
the 21st century, will certainly focus increasingly on adapting
modern technologies to local farming systems, needs and
environments. Worldwide climatic changes have been raising concerns
about potential changes to crop yields and production systems. Such
concerns include the ability to acc- modate these uncertain effects
in order to ensure an adequate food supply for an increasing
population. What can be done concretely to use agriculture to
address some of the fundamental issues of today's world? We must
recognize that agric- ture is part of the solution and not just a
problem. Agricultural development is a key to social stability and
equity in many parts of the world. It can help to al- viate the
subtle and unspoken fears of modernization and the space of change
if innovation is handled transparently.
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