Plant resources for food, fuel and conservation /
"Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition between the food needs of a growing human population and the conservation of biodiversity as intensified by the emerging...
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Earthscan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Plants for food, energy and the environment
- Plant resources for food and fibre
- Impact of climate change on food and fibre production
- Energy resources
- Plant resources for bio-energy and chemical feedstock uses
- Competition between food and fuel production
- Plants and the environment
- Impact of climate change on biodiversity
- Competition between agriculture and biodiversity conservation
- Domestication of new species
- Options for the future.