Looking ahead in world food and agriculture : perspectives to 2050 /
Conforti, Piero.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
[Rome] : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
c2011.
"Agricultural Development Economic Division, Economic and Social Development Department"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Piero Conforti -- World food and agriculture to 2030/2050 revisited : highlights and view four years later / Nikos Alexandratos -- World agriculture in a dynamically changing environment : IFPRI's long-term outlook for food and agriculture / siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant -- How can climate change and the development of bioenergy alter the long-term outlook for food and agriculture? / Günther Fischer -- Poverty, growth and inequality over the next 50 years / Evan Hillebrand -- Macroeconomic environment and commodity markets : a longer-term outlook / Andrew Burns and John Baffes -- The resources outlook : by how much do land, water and crop yields need to increase by 2050? / Jelle Bruinsma -- Investment in developing countries' food and agriculture : assessing agricultural capital stocks and their impact on productivity / Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel ... [et al.] -- Capital requirements for agriculture in developing countries to 2050 / Josef Schmidhuber, Jelle Burinsma and Gerold Boedeker -- Setting meaningful investment targets in agricultural research and development : challenges, opportunities and fiscal realities / Nienke Beintema and Howard Elliott -- Can technology deliver on the yield challenge to 2050? / tony R. Rischer, Derek Byerlee and Gregory Owen Edmeades -- Critical evaluation of selected projections / Nikos Alexandratos -- Challenges and policies for the world agricultural and food economy in the 2050 perspective / Piero Conforti and Alexander Sarris.
Food supply.
Food supply
Agricultural productivity.
Agricultural productivity
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