The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints

In recent years, world food prices have skyrocketed, causing severe hardship for poor and vulnerable people throughout the world. Between 2005 and 2008, world prices of rice, wheat, and maize more than doubled (Figure S.1); pushing more than 100 million people into poverty, including nearly 30 milli...

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Autor principal: Pender, John L.
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162121
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description In recent years, world food prices have skyrocketed, causing severe hardship for poor and vulnerable people throughout the world. Between 2005 and 2008, world prices of rice, wheat, and maize more than doubled (Figure S.1); pushing more than 100 million people into poverty, including nearly 30 million people in Africa. Although food prices have declined from the peaks seen in early 2008, they remained well above the levels seen in recent years in early 2009. The causes of the food price crisis include many factors affecting the global supply, demand, and trade of food commodities. Among the most important factors were rising oil prices, leading to increased costs of producing, processing, and transporting food; increased use of food crops for biofuel production; poor harvests in some major producing regions; rapid economic growth in many developing countries; and decades of underinvestment in agricultural research and development.
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spelling CGSpace1621212025-12-08T10:29:22Z The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints Pender, John L. food prices climate change land management In recent years, world food prices have skyrocketed, causing severe hardship for poor and vulnerable people throughout the world. Between 2005 and 2008, world prices of rice, wheat, and maize more than doubled (Figure S.1); pushing more than 100 million people into poverty, including nearly 30 million people in Africa. Although food prices have declined from the peaks seen in early 2008, they remained well above the levels seen in recent years in early 2009. The causes of the food price crisis include many factors affecting the global supply, demand, and trade of food commodities. Among the most important factors were rising oil prices, leading to increased costs of producing, processing, and transporting food; increased use of food crops for biofuel production; poor harvests in some major producing regions; rapid economic growth in many developing countries; and decades of underinvestment in agricultural research and development. 2009 2024-11-21T10:01:15Z 2024-11-21T10:01:15Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162121 en Limited Access Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit TerrAfrica Pender, John. 2009. The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management. Food Crisis & Land
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title The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints
title_full The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints
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title_full_unstemmed The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints
title_short The world food crisis, land degradation, and sustainable land management: Linkages, opportunities, and constraints
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climate change
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