| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Soils, land, and food/ Alan Wild. |
| Reminder of title: |
managing the land during the twenty-first century / |
| Author: |
Wild, Alan. |
| Published: |
Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
ix, 246 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Title from ebook title screen (viewed Jan. 26, 2005). |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Managing land for food production in the twenty-first century: an outline -- Natural resources for sustainable land management -- The development of agriculture and systems of land management -- Maintaining and improving soil fertility -- Land degradation and its control -- Raising yields: use of fertilizers -- Raising yields: water for rainfed crops and irrigation -- Managing change of land use: seven examples -- Increasing and sustaining agricultural production -- Increasing agricultural production: the examples of Africa, India and China -- Prospects and uncertainties. |
| Subject: |
Food supply. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=125118An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
051107848X (electronic bk.) |