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Lester R. Brown

Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

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To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Starke, Linda (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-393-31409-0
  • EAN: 9780393314090
  • Produktnummer: 9569706
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
  • Seitenangabe: 168 S.
  • Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.1 cm 229 g
  • Gewicht: 229

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Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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