Water and Cereals in Drylands

ISBN-13: 9781844077090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 120 str.

P. Koohafkan; B. A. Stewart

Opis

This work addresses the crucial issues of the global need to increase cereal production for food and fuel. It sets this in the context of improving the productivity of drylands, which are especially vulnerable during times of water shortages and climate change.

O autorze

P. Koohafkan is Director of the Natural Resources Management and Environment Department at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, based in Rome, Italy; B.A. Stewart is Director of the Dryland Agriculture Institute at West Texas A&M University, USA, and a former president of the Soil Science Society of America.