| ID | 078865 |
| Title Proper | Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security |
| Other Title Information | India-China Context |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ramakrishnan, P S |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Traditionally scientists have looked at agriculture merely as a production system. It is only in recent times when issues of sustainability have been regularly cropping up, that there is a paradigm shift. There is now an attempt to look at agriculture also as an ecological system. India and China are two large rapidly industrializing countries that have a large and heterogeneous population load to carry. India and China are also very ancient agricultural countries with a long and rich tradition of natural resource conservation linked sustainable management of agriculture. There is a need for linking cultural diversity with biological diversity, so rich in the India-China context, as the basis for sustainable management of natural resources, leading towards human wellbeing, and thus contributing towards human security |
| `In' analytical Note | China Report Vol. 43, No.2; Apr-Jun 2007: p219-229 |
| Journal Source | China Report Vol. 43, No.2; Apr-Jun 2007: p219-229 |
| Key Words | Food Security ; Human Security ; Agriculture |