Title :
Food security, food production and the gray system modeling
Author :
Yijun, Zhu ; Laifeng, Tang ; Zongxiang, Fei
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Pudong Inst. of Educ. Dev., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Lester Brown, director of the Institute of World Watch of the United States, delivered a speech entitled ¿Who will feed China¿ at the World Watch magazine. Combined with our ever-reducing arable land in China, we launched a research activity on food security. This activity was finished in 3 class hours, all the students in class were divided into eight groups, accomplished the four sub-projects separately: the sub-project of relationship between food and population, the sub-project of food relations and policy, the sub-project of food short-term prediction and relationship between food-importing, the sub-project of the algorithm of food and land resources.
Keywords :
economic forecasting; food manufacturing; food products; grey systems; international trade; food importing; food production; food relations; food security; food short-term prediction; gray system modeling; land resources; population; Equations; Meteorological factors; Meteorology; Modeling; Predictive models; Production systems; Security; Temperature; Watches; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2009. GSIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4914-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4916-3
DOI :
10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408240