Epilogue: global food security, rhetoric, and the sustainable intensification debate

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-79

  Kuyper, Thomas W ^a   Struik, Paul C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD SECURITY; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; KNOWLEDGE; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION GROWTH; RADICAL; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; FOOD QUALITY; GREEN REVOLUTION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 84923618487     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2014.09.004     Document Type: Review

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