Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerously low level. The World Food Price Index has doubled in one decade. The ranks of the hungry are expanding; political unrest is spreading.On the demand side of the food equation, there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table tonight who were not there last night. And some 3 billion increasingly affluent people are moving up the food chain, consuming grain-intensive livestock and poultry products.At the same time, water shortages and heat waves are making it more difficult for farmers to keep pace with demand. As grain…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34453-0
- EAN: 9780393344530
- Produktnummer: 34246768
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 427 KB
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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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