Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781782423355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 170 str.

Madramootoo, Chandra

Opis

Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis discusses rising energy prices, increased biofuel use, water scarcity, and the rising world population, all factors that directly affect worldwide food security. The book examines the range of approaches to promoting global food security, including novel and existing agricultural and husbandry techniques for safe and sustainable food production. It is divided into three parts beginning with an overview of food security, an analysis of key drivers of food insecurity, and nutrition and food security. Part Two examines emerging technologies for plant and animal food security, with subsequent chapters discussing topics from genetic and aquaculture technologies, pest and disease control, environmental and policy issues affecting food security, and an in-depth analysis of water management and methods to reduce post-harvest losses.

• Provides a comprehensive overview of food security
• Thoroughly discusses rising energy prices, increased biofuel use, water scarcity, and the rising world population, all factors that directly affect worldwide food security
• Covers the emerging technologies for plant and animal food security
• Analyzes the policy issues affecting food security

Spis treści

1 Key drivers of food insecurity

Part One: Emerging technologies for plant and animal food security

2 Emerging genetic technologies for improving the security of food crops

3 Successful technologies and approaches used to develop and manage resistance against crop diseases and pests

4 The use of technologies for sufficient and quality animal-food production

5 Aquaculture technologies for food security


Part Two: Environmental and policy issues affecting food security

6 Water management 

7 Reducing post-harvest losses

O autorze

Professor Chandra Madramootoo is Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Associate Vice Principal of McGill University, a member of the senior academic leadership team of McGill University, and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering. He serves on several univesity governance bodies including Senate, Building and Properties Committee of the Board of Governors, and the Animal Resource Advisory Council.