Looking ahead in world food and agriculture
Subtitle: perspectives to 2050
By: edited by Piero Conforti
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Agricultural and Development Economics Division
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Food supply; Forecasting; Agricultural productivity
Notes: Title from PDF cover (viewed May 23, 2012).

"Agricultural Development Economic Division, Economic and Social Development Department"--Cover.

Collected essays.

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