附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242).
Managing land for food production in the twenty-first century: an outline -- Natural resources for sustainable land management -- The development of agriculture and systems of land management -- Maintaining and improving soil fertility -- Land degradation and its control -- Raising yields: use of fertilizers -- Raising yields: water for rainfed crops and irrigation -- Managing change of land use: seven examples -- Increasing and sustaining agricultural production -- Increasing agricultural production: the examples of Africa, India and China -- Prospects and uncertainties.
摘要:A major challenge of the twenty-first century will be to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the ever-increasing world population. Soils, Land and Food is aimed at undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists and policy makers and describes how technological approaches to soil management can increase and sustain food production.
