Agrimonde – Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050
How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems? The 21st century has three challenges to meet concerning food and agriculture: food security in terms of both quantity and quality; protection of the environment and natural resources; and the inc...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Agrimonde: a work collective
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Agrimonde: a platform for facilitating collective scenario-building
- 2 Agribiom: a tool for scenario-building and hybrid modelling
- 3 The world food economy: a retrospective overview
- 4 Scenario-building choices and principles
- 5 Food consumption in 2050
- 6 Land use in 2050
- 7 Food crop yields in 2050
- 8 Resource-use balances in the Agrimonde scenarios
- 9 Agrimonde 1 and Agrimonde GO: comparison, coherence, drivers of change
- 10 Qualitative dimensions and Agrimonde scenario storylines
- 11 Scenario-based insight into food behaviours, technological options and trade :Food behaviours in question: are ruptures plausible?
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 – Lists of countries and FAO-SUA product lines used in Agribiom – Comparison of observed and simulated animal food Productions
- Appendix 2 – Review of the world food economy
- Appendix 3 – Food availability and loss of food calories in the Agrimonde GO scenario – Definition of loss and waste of food calories
- Appendix 4 – Land areas in Agrimonde GO
- Appendix 5 – Main quantitative assumptions of Agrimonde scenarios – Process for attaining a resource-use balance
- Appendix 6 – Assumptions on the qualitative dimensions of the Agrimonde scenarios
- References
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- List of authors.
