Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people a challenge to science

This book takes a critical look at the immediate challenges for feeding the population just a generation from now. Based on the 10th International Symposium sponsored by the Nutrition Committee and the Trustees of the Rank Prize Funds, the volume examines the full range of related issues, from food...

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Tác giả khác: J.C. Waterlow
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Được phát hành: New York Oxford University Press 1998
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