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The end of plenty : the race to feed a crowded world / Joel K. Bourne Jr.

By: Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]Edition: First ediitonDescription: 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393079531 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.8 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .B58 2015
Contents:
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.
Item type: BOOKS
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and index.

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.

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