World agriculture: towards 2015/2030

An FAO perspective

      



Foreword by the Director General of FAO 

Explanatory Notes. Contributors to the book 

1. Introduction and overview 

2. Prospects for food and nutrition 

3. Prospects for aggregate agriculture and major commodity groups 
4. Crop production and natural resource use 
5. Livestock production 
6. Forestry 
7. Fisheries 
8. Agriculture in poverty alleviation and economic development 
9. Agricultural trade, trade policies and the global food system 
10. Globalization in food and agriculture 
11. Selected issues in agricultural technology 
12. Agriculture and the environment: changing pressures, solutions and trade-offs 
13. Climate change and agriculture: physical and human dimensions 
Appendixes 
References, Acronyms 




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