(NAS Colloquium) Plants and Population : Is There Time?

COLLOQUIUM ON PLANTS AND POPULATION: IS THERE TIME? -- Plants and Population: is there time? -- Contents -- Plants and population: Is there time? -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION AND PROSPECT: THE CHALLENGE -- COLLOQUIUM GOALS AND STRUCTURE -- INSIGHTS FROM THE COLLOQUIUM -- CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVE -- World food and agriculture: Outlook for the medium and longer term -- KEY HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- WORLD PRODUCTION AND FOOD INSECURITY: AN UNCERTAIN LINK. -- FUTURE PROSPECTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the next quarter century -- Global and local implications of biotechnology and climate change for future food supplies -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE IFPRI-IMPACT MODEL -- III. SPECIFYING THE NONPRICE SUPPLY (AREA AND YIELD) TERMS -- IV. POLICY SCENARIOS -- V. POLICY SIMULATIONS -- VI. POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX: THE IFPRI-IMPACT MODEL BASE CASE -- World food trends and prospects to 2025 -- CEREAL PRODUCTION TRENDS -- THE FUTURE: CEREAL DEMAND AND SUPPLY -- CONCLUSION -- Plant genetic resources: What can they contribute toward increased crop productivity? -- THE ROLE OF THE CONSULTIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH (CGIAR) IN PRESERVING GENETIC RESOURCES -- CONTRIBUTIONS OF WHEAT GENETIC RESOURCES -- USE OF GENETIC RESOURCES IN MAIZE IMPROVEMENT -- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ISSUES RELATED TO THE UTILIZATION OF GENETIC RESOURCES -- MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO UTILIZATION OF GENETIC RESOURCES -- GENETIC RESOURCES: WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS? -- Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest management -- INTEGRATING BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AND HOST PLANT RESISTANCE FOR CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS -- ECOLOGY OF HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS AND MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL -- CONCLUSIONS.

Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture -- THE NEED FOR ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION -- INTENSIFICATION IN FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTS -- YIELD POTENTIAL -- SOIL QUALITY -- PRECISION AGRICULTURE -- CONCLUSIONS -- The transition to agricultural sustainability -- SUSTAINABILITY SCENARIOS -- SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS C -- RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS -- Biotechnology: Enhancing human nutrition in developing and developed worlds -- AGRONOMIC TRAITS -- DIFFERENTIATED CROPS -- PLANTS AS FACTORIES -- Use of plant roots for phytoremediation and molecular farming -- CONCLUSIONS -- Transgenic plants for tropical regions: Some considerations about their development and their transfer to the small farmer -- From pre-Hispanic to future conservation alternatives: Lessons from Mexico -- Gardenification of tropical conserved wildlands: Multitasking, multicropping, and multiusers -- THE WILDLAND GARDEN -- THE WILDLAND YELLOW PAGES -- A TALE OF TWO FREEZERS -- BIODIVERSITY PROSPECTING -- "ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CONTRACTS" BETWEEN THE WILDLAND GARDEN AND SOCIETY -- BE POSITIVE -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: The need for sustainable and efficient practices -- THE ECOLOGY OF DOUBLING CROP PRODUCTION -- ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF DOUBLING GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION -- AGRICULTURE AND THE LOSS OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- MORE OF THE SAME WILL NOT WORK -- ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS AND SUSTAINABILITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- Nitrogen management and the future of food: Lessons from the management of energy and carbon -- HOW THE NITROGEN CYCLE WORKS AND HOW IT IS BEING DISRUPTED -- WHY THE INCREASE IN STOCKS OF FIXED NITROGEN IS TROUBLESOME -- LESSONS FROM CARBON AND ENERGY FOR NITROGEN AND FOOD -- CONCLUSIONS.

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