Food and agriculture
Subtitle: how we use the land
By: Louise Spilsbury
Series: Geography focus; Geography focus
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781740702799; 9781406202809
Subjects: Sustainable agriculture; Juvenile literature; Food supply
Description: Feeding the world - Food chains - Croplands around the world - Cereals - Fruit and vegetables - Drinks - Animals for food - Fish farming - Food and transport - Family farms - The changing face of farming - Problems with intensive farming - Organic farming - Threats to farmland - Why are people hungry? - Investigating ways to feed the world - The future of agriculture.
Table of contents: title: Feeding the world; title: Food chains; title: Croplands around the world; title: Cereals; title: Case study: Growing rice in Bangladesh; title: Fruit and vegetables; title: Case study: Going bananas!; title: Drink up!; title: Animals for food; title: Fish farming; title: Food and transport; title: Family farms; title: The changing face of farming; title: Problems with intensive farming; title: Organic farming; title: Threats to farmland; title: Case study: Lost farmland in Australia; title: Why are people hungry?; title: Investigating ways to feed the world; title: The future of agricluture.