Outgrowing the Earth

Name: Outgrowing the Earth
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781138380103
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The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Autor: Lester R. Brown

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Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has c...

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Autor

Lester R. Brown

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2019

Pagini

224

EAN

9781138380103

ISBN

1138380105

Enbook ID

22553386

Editura

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Greutate

330

Dimensiuni

216 x 141 x 16

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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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