The coming famine : the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it

The coming famine : the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cribb, Julian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Food supply.
Food industry and trade.
Sustainable agriculture.
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Food Supply
climate change.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatic changes
Food industry and trade
Food supply
Sustainable agriculture
Wassermangel
Dürre
Hungersnot
Agrarpolitik
Armut
Biodiesel
Fleischverbrauch
Lebensmittelversorgung.
Lebensmittelindustrie.
Lebensmittelhandel.
Landwirtschaft.
Nachhaltigkeit.
Klimaänderung.
Livsmedelsindustri.
Livsmedelsförsörjning.
Klimatförändringar.
Jordbruk > miljöaspekter.
Hållbar utveckling.
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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.

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