World food: Production & use (with CDROM)

World Food: Production and Use is about who produces world food and how, what people need in terms of food, sources of food in the world, and ways of increasing food availability. The text starts with a comparison of world farming systems as a way of illustrating the similarities and differences of international agricultural practices. The text also examines basic human nutrition, various food types, including grains, vegetables, roots and tubers, fruits and nuts, and farm animals, world climate, soils and water, agricultural chemicals, methods for increasing food supply, and genetically modified crops.

1. Representative Farms From Around the World. 2. Human Nutrition. 3. Grain Crops. 4. World Vegetables. 5. Root Crops. 6. World Fruits, Berries and Nuts. 7. World Farm Animals and Fish. 8. World Climate and Food Production. 9. World Soils and Water. 10. The Raw Materials of Agriculture. 11. Increasing Food Supplies. 12. Genetically Modified Crops and Animals.