The coming famine : the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it /
In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- What food crisis?
- Food-- or war
- The well runs dry
- Peak land
- Nutrients : the new oil
- Troubled waters
- Losing our brains
- Eating oil
- The climate hammer
- Elephants in the kitchen
- A fair deal for farmers
- Food in the future.
