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By bread alone
- Title
- By bread alone [by] Lester Brown, with Erik P. Eckholm.
- Author
- Brown, Lester R. (Lester Russell), 1934-
- Publication
- New York, Praeger [1974]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Eckholm, Erik P.
- Description
- xi, 272 pages illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Monograph on world food security and the prospects for future food shortages due to population growth - proposes such measures as birth control, voluntary dietary change in the developed countries, agricultural development to increase food production in the developing countries, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
- Subject
- Food supply
- Population
- Food Supply
- Population
- population
- Food supply
- Voedselvraagstuk
- Bevolking
- food security
- future
- food shortage
- population growth
- birth control
- diet
- agricultural development
- food production
- statistical table
- Agricultural development
- Food and nutrition
- RESOURCES
- POPULATION
- sécurité alimentaire
- futur
- pénurie alimentaire
- croissance démographique
- régulation des naissances
- régime alimentaire
- développement agricole
- production alimentaire
- tableau statistique
- seguridad alimentaria
- futuro
- escasez de alimentos
- crecimiento demográfico
- control de la natalidad
- régimen alimentario
- desarrollo agrícola
- producción alimentaria
- cuadros estadísticos
- developed countries
- developing countries
- pays développés
- pays en développement
- países desarrollados
- países en desarrollo
- Genre/Form
- graph.
- reference.
- graphique.
- référence bibliographique.
- gráfico.
- referencia.
- Note
- "Published for the Overseas Development Council."
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [255]-261.
- Contents
- Foreword / James P. Grant -- The changing face of food scarcity -- pt. 1. Dimensions of the problem. History and geography of malnutrition -- Population and affluence -- Ecological undermining of food systems -- Growing global food insecurity -- pt. 2. Four basic resources. Land for food -- Water and bread -- Energy and agriculture -- The role of fertilizer -- pt. 3. Areas of concern and hope. The green revolution : opportunity lost? -- Deep trouble in oceanic fisheries -- Non-conventional food sources -- pt. 4. Responses. Putting on the demographic brakes -- Simplifying diets -- Hunger and employment : mutual solutions? -- Alleviating insecurity : special measures -- pt. 5. Toward century's end. Complexity, change, leadership.
- ISBN
- 0275335402
- 9780275335403
- 0275636402
- 9780275636401
- 0318161451
- 9780318161457
- LCCN
- 74016477
- OCLC
- ocm01009700
- 1009700
- SCSB-107072
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library