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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, height x width: 216x138 mm, weight: 470 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2019
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138380105
  • ISBN-13: 9781138380103
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, height x width: 216x138 mm, weight: 470 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2019
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138380105
  • ISBN-13: 9781138380103
Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on the food situation. Recent research reporting that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature can reduce grain yields by 10 per cent means that energy policy is now directly affecting crop production. Agriculture is a water-intensive activity and, while public attention has focused on oil depletion, it is aquifer depletion that poses the more serious threat. There are substitutes for oil, but none for water and the link between our fossil fuel addiction, climate change and food security is now clear.

While population growth has slowed over the past three decades, we are still adding 76 million people per year. In a world where the historical rise in land productivity has slowed by half since 1990, eradicating hunger may depend as much on family planners as on farmers. The bottom line is that future food security depends not only on efforts within agriculture but also on energy policies that stabilize climate, a worldwide effort to raise water productivity, the evolution of land-efficient transport systems, and population policies that seek a humane balance between population and food. Outgrowing the Earth advances our thinking on food security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.

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'The book proposes that the challenge of feeding the world is at least as much about energy, water, climate and population. This view is no more than we should expect from Lester Brown, whose forte, eloquently expressed in the course of writing dozens of books over the past four decades, is to emphasise the links that connect all our development sectors, sometimes obviously, sometimes covertly, often crucially.' Times Higher Education Supplement'

Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.' Sustain

'The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.' Paul Ganderton

'[ I]t will be an instant classic.' E. O. Wilson

Praise for Eco-Economy '[ A] lucid and wide-ranging examination of how we can save our forests, grow rich on power generated from wind and sun, halt global warming and heal the ozone layer.' New Scientist

'Highly interesting.' Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of Germany

'[ A] marvellous and inspiring book!' B rge Brende, Minister of Environment, Norway

'The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.' Paul Ganderton

Praise for the Author 'Widely respected environmental political thinker Lester Brown ... writes powerfully and accessibly, and is eminently readable.' Times Higher Education Supplement

Acknowledgments vii
Preface xv
1 Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits
3(19)
Losing Agricultural Momentum
4(4)
Growth: The Environmental Fallout
8(1)
Two New Challenges
9(2)
The Japan Syndrome
11(3)
The China Factor
14(3)
The Challenge Ahead
17(5)
2 Stopping at Seven Billion
22(18)
A New Demographic Era
23(3)
Population, Land, and Conflict
26(3)
The Demographic Transition
29(4)
The Demographic Bonus
33(1)
Two Success Stories
34(4)
Eradicating Poverty, Stabilizing Population
38(2)
3 Moving Up the Food Chain Efficiently
40(19)
Up the Food Chain
41(2)
Shifting Protein Sources
43(4)
Oceans and Rangelands
47(3)
The Soybean Factor
50(3)
New Protein Models
53(6)
4 Raising the Earth's Productivity
59(21)
Trends and Contrasts
60(4)
Fertilizer and Irrigation
64(5)
The Shrinking Backlog of Technology
69(8)
Future Options
77(3)
5 Protecting Cropland
80(19)
Losing Soil and Fertility
81(4)
Advancing Deserts
85(5)
Converting Cropland to Other Uses
90(3)
Conserving Topsoil
93(2)
Saving Cropland
95(4)
6 Stabilizing Water Tables
99(19)
Falling Water Tables
99(6)
Rivers Running Dry
105(3)
Cities Versus Farms
108(2)
Scarcity Crossing National Boundaries
110(1)
Raising Water Productivity
111(7)
7 Stabilizing Climate
118(15)
Rising Temperatures, Falling Yields
119(3)
Temperature Trends and Effects
122(4)
Raising Energy Efficiency
126(2)
Turning to Renewable Energy Sources
128(5)
8 Reversing China's Harvest Decline
133(23)
Grainland Shrinking
134(8)
An Aquacultural Initiative
142(2)
Water Shortages Spreading
144(2)
Turning Abroad for Grain
146(5)
A New Food Strategy
151(5)
9 The Brazilian Dilemma
156(21)
World's Leading Source of Soybeans
158(6)
Feed Supplier for the World?
164(3)
Meat Exports Climbing
167(3)
Domestic Demand Growing
170(1)
Expansion: The Risks and Costs
171(6)
10 Redefining Security
177(18)
The Tightening Food Supply
178(2)
The Politics of Food Scarcity
180(5)
Stabilizing the Resource Base
185(2)
A Complex Challenge
187(8)
Notes 195(40)
Index 235
Lester R. Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute, and has been described as 'one of the world's most influential thinkers' by The Washington Post. He is widely known as the Founder and former President of the Worldwatch Institute, whose Board he now chairs. He launched the influential State of the World reports, which are now published in over 30 languages. Brown has been honoured with numerous prizes, including the MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and Japan's Blue Planet Prize. He lives in Washington, DC.