The Resource The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world, Joel K. Bourne Jr
The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world, Joel K. Bourne Jr
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- Summary
- When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern scientific agriculture. In the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented agricultural advancement known as the Green Revolution brought hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, and improved irrigation that drove the greatest population boom in history but left ecological devastation in its wake. In The End of Plenty, environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic perspective. With a skyrocketing world population and tightening global grain supplies spurring riots and revolutions, humanity must produce as much food in the next four decades as it has since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by century's end. Bourne takes readers from his family farm to international agricultural hotspots to introduce the new generation of farmers and scientists engaged in the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. He discovers young, corporate cowboys trying to revive Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist channeling ancient Chinese traditions, the visionary behind the world's largest organic sugar-cane plantation, and many other extraordinary individuals struggling to increase food supplies -- quickly and sustainably -- as droughts, floods, and heat waves hammer crops around the globe
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First editon.
- Extent
- 408 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: The erstwhile agronomist
- The curse
- Famine's lethal lessons
- The green revolution: Food, sex, and war
- The plight of the Punjab
- China: Landraces and Lamborghinis
- Food, fuel, and profit
- The gauntlet
- The blue revolution
- Back in the USSR
- The blooming desert
- Magic seeds: Feeding shareholders or the world?
- Organic agriculture: Feeding the rich or enriching the poor?
- The Malawi miracle
- The grand Desiderata
- Isbn
- 9780393079531
- Label
- The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world
- Title
- The end of plenty
- Title remainder
- the race to feed a crowded world
- Statement of responsibility
- Joel K. Bourne Jr
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern scientific agriculture. In the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented agricultural advancement known as the Green Revolution brought hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, and improved irrigation that drove the greatest population boom in history but left ecological devastation in its wake. In The End of Plenty, environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic perspective. With a skyrocketing world population and tightening global grain supplies spurring riots and revolutions, humanity must produce as much food in the next four decades as it has since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by century's end. Bourne takes readers from his family farm to international agricultural hotspots to introduce the new generation of farmers and scientists engaged in the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. He discovers young, corporate cowboys trying to revive Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist channeling ancient Chinese traditions, the visionary behind the world's largest organic sugar-cane plantation, and many other extraordinary individuals struggling to increase food supplies -- quickly and sustainably -- as droughts, floods, and heat waves hammer crops around the globe
- Award
- ALA Notable Book, 2016.
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- 10430520
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Bourne, Joel K.
- Dewey number
- 363.8
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD9000.5
- LC item number
- .B58 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
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- Food supply
- Food consumption forecasting
- Food security
- Food consumption forecasting
- Food security
- Food supply
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- the race to feed a crowded world
- Label
- The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world, Joel K. Bourne Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index
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- volume
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- Introduction: The erstwhile agronomist -- The curse -- Famine's lethal lessons -- The green revolution: Food, sex, and war -- The plight of the Punjab -- China: Landraces and Lamborghinis -- Food, fuel, and profit -- The gauntlet -- The blue revolution -- Back in the USSR -- The blooming desert -- Magic seeds: Feeding shareholders or the world? -- Organic agriculture: Feeding the rich or enriching the poor? -- The Malawi miracle -- The grand Desiderata
- Control code
- ocn891611029
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First editon.
- Extent
- 408 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393079531
- Lccn
- 2015001552
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891611029
- Label
- The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world, Joel K. Bourne Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The erstwhile agronomist -- The curse -- Famine's lethal lessons -- The green revolution: Food, sex, and war -- The plight of the Punjab -- China: Landraces and Lamborghinis -- Food, fuel, and profit -- The gauntlet -- The blue revolution -- Back in the USSR -- The blooming desert -- Magic seeds: Feeding shareholders or the world? -- Organic agriculture: Feeding the rich or enriching the poor? -- The Malawi miracle -- The grand Desiderata
- Control code
- ocn891611029
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First editon.
- Extent
- 408 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393079531
- Lccn
- 2015001552
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891611029
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