The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world / Joel K. Bourne Jr.
- Bourne, Joel K., Jr.
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Description
Looks at the state of the food supply and food security in a world of rapidly expanding population, outlining the tremendous challenges humanity faces in the near future, and the scientists and farmers working to meet them in the face of a changing climate.
Publication/Creation
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Physical description
408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
First ediiton.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index.
Contents
The erstwhile agronomist -- The curse -- Famine's lethal lessons -- The Green Revolution : food, sex, and war -- The plight of the Punjab -- China : landraces and Lamborghinis -- Food, fuel, and profit -- The gauntlet -- The Blue Revolution -- Back in the USSR -- The blooming desert -- Magic seeds : feeding shareholders or the world? -- Organic agriculture : feeding the rich or enriching the poor? -- The Malawi miracle -- The grand "Desiderata."
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWA695 2015B77eOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780393079531
- 0393079538