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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brown, Lester Russell, 1934- By bread alone. New York, Praeger [1974] (OCoLC)570868654 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lester R Brown; Erik P Eckholm |
| ISBN: | 0275335402 9780275335403 0275636402 9780275636401 0318161451 9780318161457 |
| OCLC Number: | 1009700 |
| Notes: | "Published for the Overseas Development Council." |
| Description: | xi, 272 p. illus. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / James P. Grant -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | [by] Lester Brown, with Erik P. Eckholm. |
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