Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/1995
Description:
To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands.
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
Once Upon A Time Books
Good
|
$1.41
|
|
Pilkington & Sons
Very Good
|
$3.36
|
|
Ahab Books
Very Good
|
$3.37
|
|
HPB-Diamond
Good
|
$3.37
|
|
Vashon Island Books
Very Good
|
$3.85
|
|
HPB-Ruby
Very Good
|
$3.92
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Very Good |
$4.37
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Good |
$4.37
|
|
HPB Inc.
Good
|
$4.50
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$4.71
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
Good
|
$4.77
|
|
Defunct Books
Very Good
|
$5.05
|
|
Montclair Book Center
Good
|
$5.06
|
|
Bob's Book Journey
Very Good
|
$5.62
|
|
Pomfret Street Books
Very Good |
$6.75
|
|
HPB-Ruby
Very Good
|
$6.93
|
|
Cheryls-Books
Very Good |
$7.03
|
|
A2ZBooks
Like New
|
$7.87
|
Please Wait