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a threat to developing-country food security by 2020?
No full textGlobal population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify greatly. There is growing concern in some quarters that a decline in long-term soil productivity is already seriously limiting food production in the developing world, and that the problem is getting worse. Sarah Sherr first focuses on the magnitude and effects of soil degradation. She then addresses soil degradation in the future and ends her brief with policy and research priorities.Non-PRIFPRI1; 2020DG
una perspectiva de la situación en el año 2020
No full textEn este documento, encomendado para el seminario, Eduardo Trigo analiza el rol de la tecnología en la reversión de las condiciones actuales de pobreza rural extrema y de la degradación del medio ambiente en América Latina La intensificación agrícola es necesaria para mejorar el saldo de la balanza comercial de la región. Dicha intensificación debe estar basada en un mejor uso de la tecnología disponible así como en nuevos desarrollos científicos y tecnológicos.... Trigo deja en claro que, ante la pérdida de apoyo para la investigación en el sector público, serán necesarias nuevas tecnologías y, quizás de manera aún más crítica, nuevos modelos institucionales destinados a revitalizar la capacidad de la región para generar y difundir tecnologías agrícolas para beneficio de los productores y de la sociedad en general. Es nuestra esperanza que las ideas presentadas en este documento contribuyan a una discusión del diseño de estas nuevas políticas e instituciones destinadas a ayudar a la región a obtener los máximos beneficios de las realidades económicas y políticas rápidamente cambiantes.PRIFPRI1; 2020DG
Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Rehabilitating China’s loess plateau
No full textNon-PRIFPRI1; 2020DG
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Rwanda
No full textNon-PRIFPRI2; CRP7EPTDCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS
Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - South Africa
No full textNon-PRIFPRI2; CRP7CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS
West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Benin
No full textNon-PRIFPRI2; CRP7CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS
West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Niger
No full textNon-PRIFPRI2; CRP7CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS
Côte d'Ivoire [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]
No full textThe West African state of Côte d’Ivoire has an area of 322,465 square kilometers, with a coastline of 540 kilometers along the Gulf of Guinea. It shares borders with Liberia in the southwest, Guinea in the northwest, Mali and Burkina Faso in the north, and Ghana in the east. The southern part of Côte d’Ivoire borders the Atlantic Ocean. In the western part of the coastal areas, there are only two seasons—wet and dry. Moving inland toward the east, a short dry season occurs during the middle of the wet season, creating an annual cycle of four seasons.PRIFPRI1; CRP7EPTDCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS