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Annals of Botany 93: 785-786, 2004
© 2004 Annals of Botany Company

Wild, A. Soils, land and food: managing the land during the twenty-first century.

Y. P. ABROL

Soils, land and food: managing the land during the twenty-first century.
Wild A. 2003.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
£50 (hardback), £19·99 (softback). 256 pp.

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Food from agriculture supports around 6 billion people who inhabit this planet today. The population is expected to increase to about 7·2 and 8·3 billion by 2015 and 2030, respectively. This scenario requires increased food production. Food production can be raised by cultivating more land, increasing the yield of each crop, growing two or three crops per year on the same piece of land, or by a combination of these possibilities. Each can have problems. The best land, that is the land that is most productive, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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