Six billion and counting: population growth and food security in the 21st century [In Chinese]

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.creator.identifierRajul Pandya-Lorch: 0000-0003-3552-7382
cg.editionChineseen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.isbn7109078124en
cg.placeBeijing, Chinaen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorLeisinger, Klaus M.en
dc.contributor.authorSchmitt, Karin M.en
dc.contributor.authorPandya-Lorch, Rajulen
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:44:19Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:44:19Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156484
dc.titleSix billion and counting: population growth and food security in the 21st century [In Chinese]en
dcterms.abstractIn 1999 global population surpassed 6 billion people, and this number rises by about 70-80 million people each year. "Six Billion and Counting" examines the consequences of continuing population growth for the world's resource systems and for national and global food security. Leisinger, Schmitt, and Pandya-Lorch offer here a sober analysis of a complex and alarming situation. They assess the progress the world has made in controlling population growth and point to the areas where future difficulties will lie. They describe the effects of rapid population growth on social and economic conditions and on natural resources, and they consider what population growth will mean for the food security of poor people and poor countries. In addition, the authors make clear how the roles of women and children in traditional societies affect birth rates. Six Billion and Counting" shows that neither the population pessimists, who predict a catastrophic exhaustion of natural resources, nor the population optimists, who foresee technological solutions for all of the problems raised by population growth, offer the most useful approach to this problem. Instead, Leisinger and his coauthors argue that new technologies mitigating the harmful effects of rapid population growth can give the world valuable time to take the complex and multifaceted steps needed to reduce population growth rates to sustainable levels."en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLeisinger, Klaus M.; Schmitt, Karin M.; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul. 2002. Six billion and counting: population growth and food security in the 21st century [In Chinese]en
dcterms.extent155 p.en
dcterms.issued2002
dcterms.languagezh
dcterms.publisherChina Agricultural Publishing Houseen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156483en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/126307en
dcterms.subjectpopulationen
dcterms.subjecteconomic aspectsen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectenvironmental factorsen
dcterms.subjecttechnological changesen
dcterms.subjectfood supplyen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultural technologyen
dcterms.subjectagricultural growthen
dcterms.typeBook

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