Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security

Growing global population and a combination of dietary change, biofuels production, urban and industrial water demand and climate change will see food crises becoming more frequent in the next 40 years. Food and feed production must double to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050. This will require using...

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Autor principal: Chartres, Colin J.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38425
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description Growing global population and a combination of dietary change, biofuels production, urban and industrial water demand and climate change will see food crises becoming more frequent in the next 40 years. Food and feed production must double to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050. This will require using twice as much water as at present or increasing water productivity. It is argued that we need a Blue-Green revolution to deliver water productivity increases. This revolution will depend on increases of both rainfed and irrigated production and has to include improvements in soil fertility and institutional and governance of agriculture and natural resources.
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spelling CGSpace384252021-10-07T14:14:29Z Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security Chartres, Colin J. water management soil management water scarcity soil exhaustion climate change adaptation rainfed farming irrigated farming food security Growing global population and a combination of dietary change, biofuels production, urban and industrial water demand and climate change will see food crises becoming more frequent in the next 40 years. Food and feed production must double to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050. This will require using twice as much water as at present or increasing water productivity. It is argued that we need a Blue-Green revolution to deliver water productivity increases. This revolution will depend on increases of both rainfed and irrigated production and has to include improvements in soil fertility and institutional and governance of agriculture and natural resources. 2010 2014-06-13T11:41:43Z 2014-06-13T11:41:43Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38425 en Limited Access Chartres, Colin. 2010. Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security. Paper presented at the 19th World Congress of Soil Science, held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia, 1-6 August, 2010. 6p.
spellingShingle water management
soil management
water scarcity
soil exhaustion
climate change
adaptation
rainfed farming
irrigated farming
food security
Chartres, Colin J.
Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title_full Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title_fullStr Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title_full_unstemmed Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title_short Improved water and soil management: the key to future food security
title_sort improved water and soil management the key to future food security
topic water management
soil management
water scarcity
soil exhaustion
climate change
adaptation
rainfed farming
irrigated farming
food security
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38425
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