Energy systems analysis for food policy
| Autor: | M. Slesser, C. Lewis, W. Edwardson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
education.field_of_study Sociology and Political Science Food industry business.industry Population Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development Agricultural economics language.human_language Systems analysis Work (electrical) Economics Food policy language Food processing Food systems Production (economics) education business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Food Policy. 2:123-129 |
| ISSN: | 0306-9192 |
| Popis: | Recent work on energy systems analysis of food production systems has demonstrated the importance of energy to the food production sector of the economy. We show how energy requirements for food production are closely related to the intensity of production, and that there is a quantifiable trade-off between land and energy use. This trade-off is quite different for vegetable and industrial food as opposed to animals and fish. Thus the energy consequences to food production from changes in diet, shrinking land resources or increasing population may be readily computed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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