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Agrimonde – Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050

Gebonden Engels 2014 2014e druk 9789401787444
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How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems? In this perspective, INRA and CIRAD launched the initiative, in 2006, to develop a foresight project for analysing issues pertaining to the world's food and agricultural systems on the 2050 timeline. This book provides a synthetic presentation of the main conclusions that this foresight project has yielded. First, it recapitulates the main statistical references for the period 1961 to 2003, before going on to describe the Agribiom simulation tool used to calculate food biomass resource use balances. Two scenarios on the 2050 timeline are then considered: Agrimonde GO is a trend-based scenario that bets on economic growth to feed the world, in a context where environmental protection is not a priority; in contrast, the idea in Agrimonde 1 is to feed the world while preserving its ecosystems.

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ISBN13:9789401787444
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:250
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:2014

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<p>Preface; Marion Guillou and Gérard Matheron<br>Agrimonde: a work collective<br>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction; Bruno Dorin, Sandrine Paillard and Sébastien Treyer<br>1 Agrimonde: a platform for facilitating collective scenario-building; Sébastien Treyer, Sandrine Paillard and Bruno Dorin<br>2 Agribiom: a tool for scenario-building and hybrid modelling; Bruno Dorin and Tristan Le Cotty<br>3 The world food economy: a retrospective overview; Bruno Dorin<br>4 Scenario-building choices and principles; Sandrine Paillard, Tévécia Ronzon and Sébastien Treyer<br>5 Food consumption in 2050; Jean-Marc Chaumet, Gérard Ghersi and Jean-Louis Rastoin<br>6 Land use in 2050; Tévécia Ronzon<br>7 Food crop yields in 2050; Tévécia Ronzon<br>8 Resource-use balances in the Agrimonde scenarios; Tristan Le Cotty and Jean-Marc Chaumet<br>9 Agrimonde 1 and Agrimonde GO: comparison, coherence, drivers of change; Tévécia Ronzon, Jean-Marc Chaumet and Sandrine Paillard<br>10 Qualitative dimensions and Agrimonde scenario storylines; Sandrine Paillard and Sébastien Treyer<br>11 Scenario-based insight into food behaviours, technological options and trade :Food behaviours in question: are ruptures plausible?; Jean-Marc Chaumet, Francis Delpeuch, Gérard Ghersi and Jean-Louis Rastoin<br>Conclusion; Bernard Hubert, Patrick Caron and Hervé Guyomard<br><br>Appendices<br>Appendix 1 – Lists of countries and FAO-SUA product lines used in Agribiom – Comparison of observed and simulated animal food productions<br>Appendix 2 – Review of the world food economy<br>Appendix 3 – Food availability and loss of food calories in the Agrimonde GO scenario – Definition of loss and waste of food calories<br>Appendix 4 – Land areas in Agrimonde GO<br>Appendix 5 – Main quantitative assumptions of Agrimonde scenarios – Process for attaining a resource-use balance<br />Appendix 6 – Assumptions on the qualitative dimensions of the Agrimonde scenarios<br>References<br>List of abbreviations and acronyms<br>List of authors</p>

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