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Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity / Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute.

By: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2012]Edition: First EditionDescription: xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393088915 (hardcover)
  • 9780393344158 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/9 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.6 .B774 2012
Contents:
Food: the weak link -- The ecology of population growth -- Moving up the food chain -- Food or fuel? -- Eroding soils darkening our future -- Peak water and food scarcity -- Grain yields starting to plateau -- Rising temperatures, rising food prices -- China and the soybean challenge -- The global land rush -- Can we prevent a food breakdown?

Includes index.

Food: the weak link -- The ecology of population growth -- Moving up the food chain -- Food or fuel? -- Eroding soils darkening our future -- Peak water and food scarcity -- Grain yields starting to plateau -- Rising temperatures, rising food prices -- China and the soybean challenge -- The global land rush -- Can we prevent a food breakdown?

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