Book Description

Our greatest challenge - feeding a hungry world; Economical anda social factors influencing the use of chemicals in agriculture; The future role of chemistry in removing constraints on food production and utilization; Biological constraints on food production and on the level and efficient use of chemical inputs; Physical and chemical constraints to food production in the tropics;Basic chemical research and future food supplies; Food and energy - independent world needs; Feeding the world during the nest doubling of the world population; World hunger: problems and opportunities.