Sustainable Food Production [electronic resource] / edited by Paul Christou, Roxana Savin, Barry A. Costa-Pierce, Ignacy Misztal, C. Bruce A. Whitelaw.

From the Contents: Part I Animal Breeding and Genetics for Food.-Animal Breeding and Genetics, Introduction -- Animal Breeding Methods and Sustainability -- Animal Breeding, Foundations of Animal Breeding, Long-Term Challenges -- Animal Breeding, Modeling in -- Animal Genetic in Environment Interaction -- Part II Crop Science and Technology -- Abiotic Stress Tolerant Crops: Genes, Pathways and Bottlenecks -- Biomass Crops for Biofuels and Bio-based Products -- Biotechnology and Nutritional Improvement of Crops -- Part III Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology -- Aquaculture and Renewable Energy Systems, Integration of -- Aquaculture, Ecological -- Aquaculture, Integrated Multi-trophic (IMTA) -- Part IV Transgenic Livestock for Food Production -- Avian Specific Transgenesis -- Disease-Resistant Transgenic Animals -- Livestock Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer -- Nuclear Transfer to Produce Transgenic Mammals.

Population growth in the coming decades will put severe pressure on human food, animal feed, and fiber production from both land and ocean ecosystems.� Environmental sustainability and social justice are increasingly important elements in debates on how to ensure adequate food for a� growing global population.� Gathering approximately 90 peer-reviewed entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Sustainable Food Production provides comprehensive coverage of this vital area of current research.� Sections on animal breeding and genetics for food, crop science and technology, ocean farming and sustainable aquaculture science and technology, and transgenic livestock for food discuss state-of-the-art scientific advances, and place them in their proper scientific, environmental, ethical, socio-economic, and political contexts.