Cover image for
Title:
The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world / Joel K. Bourne Jr.
Author:
Bourne, Joel K., Jr.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Call Number:
HD9000.5 .B58 2015
Abstract:
Looks at the state of the food supply and food security in a world of rapidly expanding population, outlining the tremendous challenges humanity faces in the near future, and the scientists and farmers working to meet them in the face of a changing climate.
Edition:
First ediiton.
ISBN:
9780393079531
Physical Description:
408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
erstwhile agronomist -- curse -- Famine's lethal lessons -- Green Revolution : food, sex, and war -- plight of the Punjab -- China : landraces and Lamborghinis -- Food, fuel, and profit -- gauntlet -- Blue Revolution -- Back in the USSR -- blooming desert -- Magic seeds : feeding shareholders or the world? -- Organic agriculture : feeding the rich or enriching the poor? -- Malawi miracle -- grand "Desiderata."
Personal Author:
Copies: