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73 Данные по восстановлению пастбищ взяты из UNEP, op. cit. note 63, pp. 73–92, цены в долларах 1990 года переведены в цены 2004 года с помощью косвенного дефлятора цен, взятого из U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Table C.1. GDP and Other Major NIPA Aggregates” в Survey of Current Business, September 2005, p. D-48.

74 H. E. Dregne and Nan-Ting Chou, “Global Desertification Dimensions and Costs” из H.E. Dregne, ed., Degradation and Restoration of Arid Lands (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech. University, 1992); данные по восстановлению пастбищ взяты из UNEP, op. cit. note 63, pp. 73–92.

75 Balmford et al., op. cit. note 52.

76 World Parks Congress, Recommendations , op. cit. note 63, pp. 17–19; World Parks Congress, “The Durban Accord”, op. cit. note 63.

77 Данные об орошаемых полях взяты из FAO, ResourcesSTAT, электронная база данных: faostat.fao.org, данные обновлены в апреле 2009 г.

78 Данные по Иордании взяты из Tom Gardner-Outlaw and Robert Engelman, Sustaining Water, Easing Scarcity: A Second Update (Washington, DC: Population Action International, 1997); данные по Мексике взяты из Sandra Postel, Last Oasis (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), pp. 150–151.

79 Sandra Postel, Pillar of Sand (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 230–235; данные по Мексике взяты из Postel, op. cit. note 78, pp. 167–168.

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1 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Production, Supply and Distribution (PS&D) , электронная база данных – см. www.fas.usda. gov/psdonline, данные обновлены 12 мая 2009 г.; USDA, Feedgrains Database, электронная база данных – см. www.ers.usda.gov/Data/ feedgrains, данные обновлены 19 мая 2009 г.

2 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “FAO-OECD to Weigh Investments Against Hunger”, press release (Rome: 4 May 2009); Shenggen Fan and Mark W. Rosengrant, Investing in Agriculture to Overcome the World Food Crisis and Reduce Poverty and Hunger (Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), June 2008).

3 USDA, PS&D , op. cit. note 1; U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects, The 2008 Revision Population Database, электронная база данных – см. esa.un.org/unpp, данные обновлены 11 марта 2009 г.

4 USDA, PS&D , op. cit. note 1.

5 Исторические данные собраны Worldwatch Institute from FAO, Fertilizer Yearbook (Rome: разные годы) и Earth Policy Institute from International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), IFADATA , электронная база данных – см. www.fertilizer.org/ifa/ifadata/search, данные от 3 февраля 2009 г.; текущие даты взяты из Patrick Heffer, M edium-Term Outlook for World Agriculture and Fertilizer Demand 2007/08 – 2012/13 (Paris: IFA, June 2008), p. 34, и из IFA, Fertilizer Consumption 2007/08 – 2012/13 Country Repots (Paris: June 2008), p. 8, 19, 21.

6 Данные по ирригации за 50–60-е годы ХХ века взяты из публикации Lester R. Brown, “Eradicating Hunger: A Growing Challenge” – в книге: Lester R. Brown et al., State of the World 2001 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), pp. 52–53; данные за 1961–2007 гг. взяты из электронной база данных FAO, ResourceSTAT , – см. faostat.fao.org, данные обновлены в апреле 2009 г.

7 Lester R. Brown, Increasing World Food Output: Problems and Prospects, Foreign Agricultural Economic Report No. 25 (Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS), 1965), pp. 13–14; L.T. Evans, Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 242–244.

8 USDA, PS&D , op. cit. note 1; Margriet F. Caswell et al., Agricultural Biotechnology: An Economic Perspective (Washington, DC: USDA, ERS, 1998), p. 19; Kenneth G. Cassman and Adam J. Liska, “Food and Fuel for All: Realistic or Foolish?” Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , vol. 1, no. 1(2007), pp. 18–23.

9 World Food Prize Foundation, “A World-Brand name: Yuan Longping, The Father of Hybrid Rice” – см. www.worldfoodprize.org/laureates/ yuanspotlight.htm, просмотрено автором 15 июля 2009 г.

10 USDA, PS&D , op. cit. note 1; электронная база данных FAO, FAOSTAT , – faostat.fao.org, данные обновлены в июне 2009 г.;

11 USDA, PS&D , op. cit. note 1.

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