Food-Climate Interactions : Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Berlin (West), December 9–12, 1980

Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Berlin (West), December 9-12, 1980 Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi Interactions of Food and Climate: Issues and Policy Considerations....Pages 1-19 Dimensions of the World Food and Climate Problem....Pages 21-46 World Food Needs and Prospects....Pages 47-68 Population Growth, Nutrition and Food Supply....Pages 69-79 Seawater-Based Agriculture as a Food Production Defense Against Climate Variability....Pages 81-99 Agricultural Development Prospects until the Year 2000....Pages 101-116 Back Matter....Pages 117-120 Climate Variability and Crop Yield in High and Low Temperate Regions....Pages 121-137 Climatic Variability and Crop Yields in the Semi-Arid Tropics....Pages 139-166 Climatic Variability and Sustainability of Crop Yield in the Moist Tropics....Pages 167-186 Climate and Aquatic Food Production....Pages 187-233 Back Matter....Pages 235-238 Water Resources and Food Supply....Pages 239-260 Soil Management and the Food Supply....Pages 261-284 Interrelations between Pests and Climatic Factors....Pages 285-301 Food, Energy, and Climate Change....Pages 303-323 Towards a Conservation Strategy to Retain World Food and Biosphere Options....Pages 325-359 Back Matter....Pages 361-365 Basic Data Requirements — Experience with the World Wheat Experiment of the World Meteorological Organization....Pages 367-382 The Technology of Crop/Weather Modeling....Pages 383-398 State of the Art of Predicting Short Period Climatic Variations....Pages 399-422 Climatic Variability and Coherence in Time and Space....Pages 423-441 Back Matter....Pages 443-445 Economic Consequences of Food/Climate Variability....Pages 447-463 Back Matter....Pages 481-485 Strategies to Deal with Climate/Food Interactions in Developed Countries....Pages 465-475 Strategies to Increase Food Production in Developing Countries....Pages 477-480 Back Matter....Pages 481-485 Back Matter....Pages 487-504