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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics Of Food Scarcity (2012)

by Lester Russell Brown(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

039308891X (ISBN13: 9780393088915)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: As food scarcity is bekomming ever more serious, I decided it was time to get some info about the matter. And this book is all that, and more. The author summarizes all the problems we are facing in a very clear, bulletpoint matter. States the reasons we are in this mess and explains the pressures in both supply and demand for food. Reading this book will give you a great overall picture of the food crisis we are / will be facing. Would recommend to everyone trying to get a feel for the topic.
review 2: "On the demand side of the food equation, population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of food into fuel for cars are combining to raise consumption by record amounts. On the supply side, extreme soil erosion, growing water shortages, and the earth's ... morerising temperature are making it more difficult to expand production." pp. 3-4"Most of the nearly 1 billion people who are chronically hungry and malnourished live in the Indian subcontinent or sub-Saharan Africa." p. 7"The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.""A startling 80 percent of oceanic fisheries are being fished at or beyond their sustainable yield." p. 17Page 17 - livestock in Africa has nearly tripled since 1961. Overgrazing?Page 18 - 44 countries have reached replacement rate, at 970 million totalHe keeps it simple to appeal to a general audience, but at times he oversimplifies (the earth's rising temperatures). The difference between a journalist and a policy advocate.Food insecurity sparked Arab springFamily planning and population growth aspects of food securityFood security in Peru, Philippines less

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