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

List of contents

1.Overview: The Wake-Up Call Part 1: China: Taking Inventory 2. Another Half-Billion 3. Moving UP the Food Chain 4. The Shrinking Cropland Base 5. Spreading Water Scarcity 6. Raising Cropland Productivity Part 2: The Shifting World Grain Balance 7. The Growing Grain Deficit 8. Competition for Grain Part 3: Facing Scarcity 9. Entering a New Era 10. Priorities in an Era of Scarcity.

About the author

Lester Russell Brown is one of the leading experts on environmental science and is the founder and former president the famous Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to global environmental concerns. He has has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world’s most influential thinkers". Lester is the author of 54 books that have been translated in more than 40 languages. His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate change, and renewable energy.　

Summary

Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing.

Product details

• Authors: Lester Brown
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781032585994
• ISBN: 978-1-03-258599-4
• No. of pages: 154
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Population and Demography, Human Geography, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies