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Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
Lester R. Brown
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Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Dimension: 215 x 141. Weight in Grams: 230. Very good copy with light shelf wear
To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began ... Read more
To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393314090
SKU
KCW0012301
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Ref
99-1
About Lester R. Brown
Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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