New technologies and the future of food and nutrition : proceedings of the First Ceres Conference, Williamsburg, VA, October 1989 /
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / John T. Dunlop
- Introduction: new issues confronting the food industry / Gerald E. Gaull
- Demographic trends in populations, food, and the environment / Daniel Bell
- Paradigms of American agriculture / Durward Bateman
- Recent American agricultural history / George Brown
- Technological advances and world hunger / M.S. Swaminathan
- Introduction : biotechnology and industry / Donald Glaser
- A primer on molecular biology of DNA : its modifications and role in heredity / Arthur Kornberg
- Plant genetic engineering and the food industry / Winston Brill
- Genetically engineered animals / Philip Leder
- Understanding life and nutrition as chemistry / Arthur Kornberg
- A brief history of nutrition : the role of clinical science / Jules Hirsch
- The evolution of diet and nutrition / Norman Kretchmer
- Nutrition and the elderly / Irwin Rosenberg
- Nutrition and the consumer / Judith Stern
- The politics of food and biotechnophobia / Clayton Yeutter
- The link between diet and health / Louis W. Sullivan
- Regulatory challenges and biotechnological advances / Frank E. Young
- Food regulation : future issues / Sanford Miller
- The need for a scientifically literate public / John Moore
- European community trade issues affecting the food sector in the 1990s / Sir Roy Denman
- The food industry and the U.S. consumer / Michael Miles
- The food industry in Britain / R.T. Vyner
- Investment and the new technologies / D. Theodore Berghorst
- The future of the food industry in Mexico / Eneko de Belausteguigoitia
- The food industry in France and the European community / Francis Gautier
- Economic forecasting / Kenneth Arrow
- Perception and predictions / Philip Anderson
- Conclusions : the impact of new technologies and the future of the global agrifood system in the 21st century / Ray A. Goldberg.