Water and Cereals in Drylands

ISBN-13: 9781844077083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 120 str.

P. Koohafkan; B. A. Stewart

Opis

Cereals are the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock products consumed as food. This book reviews the potential for increased cereal production in drylands across the world, from the USA, Australia and Southern Europe to Asia and Africa.

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.