Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security Overcoming the World Food Crisis Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition Series
Coordonnateur : Madramootoo Chandra
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.
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
R&D personnel in agriculture and animal husbandry, food scientists with an interest in sustainability, those involved in policy-making and standard-setting and academics with research interests in the area of food security.
- 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
Date de parution : 12-2015
Ouvrage de 170 p.
15.2x22.8 cm
Thèmes d’Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security :
Mots-clés :
Animal nutrition; Animal welfare; Animal-food production; Aquaculture; Biofuels; Biosecure systems; Biotic and abiotic stresses; Climate change; Consumer attitudes; Crops; Diseases; Drainage; Drying; Environmental concerns; Fish production; Food consumption patterns; Food security; Genetic selection; Genomics; Handling; Health management; Induced resistance; Infrastructure; Investment; Irrigation; Land degradation; Management; Marker-assisted selection; Next-generation sequencing; Pests; Population growth; Precooling; Product quality; Quantitative trait loci; Recirculated aquaculture systems; Reproductive technologies; Resistance; Storage; Technology; Transgenic resistance; Water scarcity; Water use efficiency; World hunger