At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the twenty-first century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be addressed? Written to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Malthus' seminal Essay on the Principle of Population, this fascinating book looks at the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years, illustrating how the evolution of agriculture has both shaped and been shaped by the course of world population growth. This historical context serves to illuminate our present position and to aid understanding of possible future paths to food security for the planet. This volume is a unique and accessible account that will be of interest to a wide audience concerned with global population, food supply, agricultural development, environmental degradation and resource depletion.
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"I recommend this book highly to the academic community as we try collectively to understand the next 50 years in regard to food security and environmental sustainability...It is well referenced. Feeding the Ten Billion is a good reference for upper level courses on sustainability and should be on the shelf of those working and writing in agricultural sustainability." Soil Science
"Excellent...a very readable book which should be of interest to a wide audience, including teachers, students, policy-makers, advisers and the general public." Plant Growth Regulation
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At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the 21st century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be addressed? This fascinating book looks at the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years, so illuminating our present position and providing pointers towards possible future paths to food security for the planet.
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An excellent history of population and agriculture.,
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This review is from: Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth (Paperback)
This work is an efficient survey of agriculture and its relation to population growth through history. The chapters are designed to focus on population growth through time. For example chapter 2 is: Reaching for 5 million ( to 8000BC); chapter 3 is: Towards 50 million ( 8000-2000BC); chapter 4 is: The first half-billion ( 2000BC-1500AD); chapter 5 is: Towards the first billion (1500-1825) etc. Under each heading is a discussion of the critical agricultural developments during that time period. The last chapter focuses on the problems of feeding 10 billion people in the future.The research is detailed and knowledgable. The sources are modern and uptodate. The writing is precise. It is an excellent book that covers a lot of ground in a small compass. Highly recommended.
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I had to buy this for course on Agriculture. Found it most instructive. The writing is a bit choppy but the formate made it easy to assimilate.
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Humankind, i.e. the genus Homo, has depended for its subsistence on hunting and gathering for more than 99% of its evolutionary history, yet since that time its population has increased 1000-fold. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, Fertile Crescent, Abu Hureyra, Green Revolution, United Nations, Low Countries, Latin America, North America, Silent Spring, New Guinea, World Bank, Arthur Young, Charles Darwin, Indus Valley, World War, Department of Agriculture, Jethro Tull, Justus von Liebig, Middle Ages, New World, Yangzi Valley, John Bennet Lawes, Middle East, Peruvian Andes, Soil Conservation Service New!
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Humankind, i.e. the genus Homo, has depended for its subsistence on hunting and gathering for more than 99% of its evolutionary history, yet since that time its population has increased 1000-fold. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, Fertile Crescent, Abu Hureyra, Green Revolution, United Nations, Low Countries, Latin America, North America, Silent Spring, New Guinea, World Bank, Arthur Young, Charles Darwin, Indus Valley, World War, Department of Agriculture, Jethro Tull, Justus von Liebig, Middle Ages, New World, Yangzi Valley, John Bennet Lawes, Middle East, Peruvian Andes, Soil Conservation Service New!
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- An Essay on the Principle of Population (Great Minds Series) by Thomas R. Malthus on 5 pages
- Essay on the Principle of Population (Norton Critical Editions) by T.R. Malthus on 5 pages
- An Essay On The Principle Of Population by Thomas Malthus on 5 pages
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on 5 pages
- Soil Conservation (American Environmental Studies) by Hugh Hammond Bennett on page 124, page 125, and Back Matter
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- What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science by Richard N. Cooper on page 57, and page 72
- Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning on page 87, and Back Matter
- Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives by Emanuel Epstein on page 268, and page 346
- A Concise History of World Population by Massimo Livi-Bacci in Back Matter
- A Concise History of World Population by Massimo Livi-Bacci in Back Matter
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