Potential and attainable food production and food security in different regions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 917-928

  Penning De Vries, F W T ^a   Rabbinge, R ^a,b   Groot, J J R ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Scientific Council for Government Policy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POTENTIAL; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL OVERVIEW; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; REGIONAL INEQUALITY;

EID: 0030739315     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0071     Document Type: Article

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