Published for the World Food Conference to be held in Rome in November, this provocative book assesses the current food scarcity situation and proposes steps that can be taken to expand food production and buy additional time to stabilize population. Part of the Worldwatch Environmental Alert series. National pubilcity.
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Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, is one of the world's most widely published authors with books in more than 40 languages.
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The thesis of this book is that food scarcity will be the defining issue of the new era now unfolding, much as ideological conflict was the defining issue of the historical era that recently ended. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unpublished printout, grain harvested area, grainland area, declining grain prices, oceanic fish catch, world grain harvest, future food security, oceanic fisheries, carryover stocks, seafood catch, food prospect, world grain production, rising food prices, aquifer depletion, land productivity, livestock products, fertilizer use, irrigated area, grain area, additional fertilizer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The thesis of this book is that food scarcity will be the defining issue of the new era now unfolding, much as ideological conflict was the defining issue of the historical era that recently ended. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unpublished printout, grain harvested area, grainland area, declining grain prices, oceanic fish catch, world grain harvest, future food security, oceanic fisheries, carryover stocks, seafood catch, food prospect, world grain production, rising food prices, aquifer depletion, land productivity, livestock products, fertilizer use, irrigated area, grain area, additional fertilizer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World Bank, Soviet Union, Great Plains, Western Europe, European Union, Middle East, North America, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Conservation Reserve Program, Department of Agriculture New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- State of the World 1986: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown on 6 pages
- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute on 4 pages
- The World Food Outlook (Trade and Development) by Donald O. Mitchell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series) by Sandra Postel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- World Economic Outlook: April 2002 : Recessions and Recoveries by International Monetary Fund in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Food In Global History by Raymond Grew on page 292
- Under The Blade: The Conversion Of Agricultural Landscapes by Richard K. Olson on page 174
- Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer by Joseph Milburn Thompson in Back Matter
- The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect by Nathan Gardels on page 145
- Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health by David Pimentel on page 136
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