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Feeding a hungry planet : rice, research & development in Asia & Latin America / James Lang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lang, James, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rice--Asia.
- Rice.
- Rice--South America.
- Rice--Varieties--Asia.
- Rice--Varieties--South America.
- Agricultural innovations--Asia.
- Agricultural innovations.
- Agricultural innovations--South America.
- Rice research--Asia.
- Rice research.
- Rice--Research--South America.
- Rice--Research--Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 185 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. This volume discusses how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. The author describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice systems, genetics, sustainable agriculture, and efforts to narrow the gap between yields at research stations and those on working farms. Ultimately Lang concludes, the ability to feed growing populations and protect fragile ecologies depends as much on the sustainable on-site farm technologies as on high-yielding crop varieties. As such, Lang views agriculture as a chain of events linking the farmer's field with the scientist's laboratory, and he argues that rice cultivation is shaped by different social systems, cultures, and environments. Describing research conducted by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia, he shows how national programs tailor research to their own production problems.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Asia. Rice facts
- Keeping Ahead
- Genetic Improvement
- Production Technology
- On-Farm Research
- Training
- Lessons
- Pt. 2. Brazil. Contrasts
- Developments
- Rice in Brazil
- Santa Catarina
- Rio Grande do Sul
- A Walk
- The Cerrado
- Solutions
- Pt. 3. Chile. Working with farmers
- Rationale
- Pt. 4. Colombia. Rice in Colombia
- Tropical Pastures
- Caqueta
- Detours
- Pt. 5. Conclusions. One Size Fits All
- Models
- Back to the Future
- Developments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-176) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9798890865908
- 9780807862711
- 0807862711
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