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By bread alone [electronic resource] [by] Lester Brown, with Erik P. Eckholm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Praeger [1974]Description: xi, 272 p. illus. 21 cmISBN:
  • 0275335402
  • 9780275335403
  • 0275636402 (pbk.)
  • 9780275636401 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/9
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.6 .B77
Other classification:
  • 83.66
  • 83.30
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Foreword / by James P. Grant -- Overview: The changing face of food scarcity -- Pt. 1. Dimensions of the problem. History and geography of malnutrition ; Population and affluence ; Ecological undermining of food systems ; Growing global food insecurity -- Pt. 2. Four basic resources. Land for food ; Water and bread ; Energy and agriculture ; The role of fertilizer -- Pt. 3. Areas of concern and hope. The green revolution: opportunity lost? ; Deep trouble in oceanic fisheries ; Non-conventional food sources -- Pt. 4. Responses. Putting on the demographic brakes ; Simplifying diets ; Hunger and employment: mutual solutions? ; Alleviating insecurity: special measures -- Pt. 5. Toward century's end. Complexity, change, leadership.
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"Published for the Overseas Development Council."

Bibliography: p. [255]-261.

Foreword / by James P. Grant -- Overview: The changing face of food scarcity -- Pt. 1. Dimensions of the problem. History and geography of malnutrition ; Population and affluence ; Ecological undermining of food systems ; Growing global food insecurity -- Pt. 2. Four basic resources. Land for food ; Water and bread ; Energy and agriculture ; The role of fertilizer -- Pt. 3. Areas of concern and hope. The green revolution: opportunity lost? ; Deep trouble in oceanic fisheries ; Non-conventional food sources -- Pt. 4. Responses. Putting on the demographic brakes ; Simplifying diets ; Hunger and employment: mutual solutions? ; Alleviating insecurity: special measures -- Pt. 5. Toward century's end. Complexity, change, leadership.

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