Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity - Brossura

Brown, Lester R.

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ISBN 10: 0393344150 ISBN 13: 9780393344158

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Riassunto

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. “In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil,” Lester R. Brown writes.

What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by scarcity and food nationalism? Brown outlines the political implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing countries in Africa and elsewhere as well as the world’s shrinking buffers against poor harvests. With wisdom accumulated over decades of tracking agricultural issues, Brown exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the world is facing.

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"One of the world's most influential thinkers" --(Washington Post)

L'autore:

Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, DC, has been honoured with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize and Japan's Blue Planet Prize.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393344150
• ISBN 13: 9780393344158
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144