World Population and World Food Supplies

ISBN-13: 9780367275983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 524 str.

E. John Russell

Opis

Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it.

Spis treści

Preface  1. The Problem: Feeding the World's Population  2. The United Kingdom, Eire  3. Methods of Increasing Food Production in the United Kingdom  4. Northern Europe's Intensive Producers: The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland  5. France and the Peasant Producers of the Mediterranean Lands: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Egypt  6. Africa: (1) Southern Region: The White Man's Farming  7. Africa: (2) The Central Regions: Eastern Group; African Peasant and European Farming  8. Africa: (3) The Central Regions: Western Group; African Farming  9. Asia: (1) India and Pakistan  10. Asia: (2) China, Japan, Indonesia and the Rice Exporting Countries  11. The Food Exporters: (1) The United States, Canada  12. The Food Exporters: (2) Australia, New Zealand  13. The Potential Suppliers: The South American Countries  14. Trends in Food Production

O autorze

Sir Edward John Russell OBE was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943. He initiated the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, which later became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.