TY - CHAP AU - ssa Ouedraogo AU - Korodjouma Ouattara AU - Séraphine Kaboré/Sawadogo AU - Souleymane Paré AU - Jennie Barron ED - Anna Aladjadjiyan Y1 - 2012-01-20 PY - 2012 T1 - Permanent Internal Migration as Response to Food Shortage: Implication to Ecosystem Services in Southern Burkina Faso N2 - This book is devoted to food production and the problems associated with the satisfaction of food needs in different parts of the world. The emerging food crisis calls for development of sustainable food production, and the quality and safety of the food produced should be guaranteed. The book contains thirteen chapters and is divided into two sections. The first section is related to social issues rising from food insufficiency in the third world countries, and is titled "Sustainable food production: Case studies". The case studies of semi-arid Africa, Caribbean and Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Pacific Islands, Mexico and Brazil are discussed. The second section, titled "Scientific Methods for Improving Food Quality and Safety", covers the methods for control and avoidance of food contaminants. Substitution of chemical treatment with physical, rapid analytical methods for control of contaminants, problems in animal husbandry related to diary production and hormones in food producing animals, approaches and tasks in maize and rice production are in the covered by 6 chapters in this section. BT - Food Production SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/33857 DO - 10.5772/33857 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -