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Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity  Cover Image Book Book

Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity

Summary: Explores the geopolitics of food scarcity. Presents an effort to raise public understanding of the challenges of food shortage and be an inspiration to action.

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  • ISBN: 9780393344158 (sc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton, 2012.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:jan.13
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: Food: the weak link -- The ecology of population growth -- Moving up the food chain -- Food or fuel? -- Eroding soils darkening our future -- Peak water and good scarcity -- Grain yields starting to plateau -- Rising temperatures, rising food prices -- China and the soybean challenge -- The global land rush -- Can we prevent a food breakdown?
Subject: Food supply -- Environmental aspects
Global warming
Food supply -- Political aspects
Food supply
Overpopulation
Agricultural productivity

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Interurban Library HD 9000.6 B774 2012 (Text) 26040003074743 Main Collection Volume hold Available -

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