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Unlock Global Food Security

A major challenge of the twenty-first century is ensuring sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population.

Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture

Soils, Land and Food is a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists, and policy makers that describes how technology in soil management can increase and sustain agricultural production.

Land Management Techniques for Success

The book leads readers through the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed.

Key Strategies for Increasing Food Production

Surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs, and improving economic conditions can all help to increase food production.

Particular emphasis is placed on the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.

This comprehensive test bank includes questions, solutions, and chapters to support exam prep, homework help, and instructor use.

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