Trayectoria reciente de la agricultura y la alimentacion: retos del futuro

Elias Fereres

Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, 2009, issue 224, 14

Abstract: El articulo presenta una revision del <> acerca de las posibilidades y limites de la agricultura en su tarea de alimentar a la poblacion mundial. Parte de una sintesis de la trayectoria de la agricultura a lo largo del siglo XX, detallando las pautas de evolucion de los rendimientos en distintas agricultural del planeta y destacando el papel de la inbestigacion agraria. Despues resena las modificaciones de tendencias observadas en las ultimas decadas y plantea las posibilidades abiertas en el marco de los nuevos escenarios ambientales (climaticos en particular) y tecnologicos. This article presents a revision of the <> about the possibilities and limits of agriculture in its function of feeding the world population. It starts from a synthesis of the trajectory of agriculture along the XX Century, detailing the patterns of evolution of the yields of different agricultures of the world and emphasizing the role of the agricultural research. Then, it reports the changes in the trends observed in the last decades and sets out the open possibilities in the frame of the new environmental (particularly climatic) and technological scenarios.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.185976

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