Coming Famine : The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, Hardco...

by Julian Cribb

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Coming Famine : The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, Hardcover by Cribb, Julian, ISBN 0520260716, ISBN-13 9780520260719, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The Coming Famine is an erudite and learned analysis of humanity's greatest challenge. At this very minute we are jeopardizing the rights to food for a billion people, and the effects will be felt by us all through migration, dietary changes, and increased health risks, whether we believe it or not. This is a book all thinking people should read."-Professor Lindsay Falvey, University of Cambridge "Julian Cribb warns with a well-synthesized evidence base about a potential famine in the making. The food crisis is already a daily reality for one billion people. Th offers not just a warning but sound guidance for the needed actions; easily understandable but suitably comprehensive, leaving no excuse for inaction."-Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute In the Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis-a global food shortage that threatens to hit by midcentury-which he argues would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment points to a dangerous confluence of shortages-of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge-combined with an increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose, Cribb explains how the food system interacts with the environment an

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2010
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520260719
• Condition: Fine

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