Six billion and counting : population growth and food security in the 21st century

Summary: The authors take a careful look at why populations grow so rapidly in some areas and at the consequences of this growth.In many cases,causes and consequences are related.Social and economic conditions,for example,both inform and are informedby rates of population growth

Main Author: Leisinger
Published: Washington D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002.
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260 0 0 |a Washington D.C.:   |b International Food Policy Research Institute,   |c 2002. 
300 |a xiii,155p.;   |c 23cm. 
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600 1 0 |a Karin Schmitt 
600 1 0 |a Rajul Pandya-Lorch 
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