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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cribb, Julian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.