Who Will Feed China?

Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

Lester Brown

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Routledge
31 August 2023

Development economics; Human geography

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. This book predicts that in an integrated world economy, China’s rising food prices will become the world’s rising food prices. China’s land scarcity will come everyone’s land scarcity and water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. China’s dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the world’s fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earth’s capacity to feed us. Over time, Janet Larsen argued, China’s leaders came to ‘acknowledge how Who Will Feed China? changed their thinking..’ As China’s wealth increases, so do the dietary demands of its population. The increasing middle classes demand more grain-intensive meat and farmed fish. The issue of who will feed China has not gone away.

By: Lester Brown
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 458g
ISBN: 9781032585994
ISBN 10: 1032585994
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1.Overview: The Wake-Up Call Part 1: China: Taking Inventory 2. Another Half-Billion 3. Moving UP the Food Chain 4. The Shrinking Cropland Base 5. Spreading Water Scarcity 6. Raising Cropland Productivity Part 2: The Shifting World Grain Balance 7. The Growing Grain Deficit 8. Competition for Grain Part 3: Facing Scarcity 9. Entering a New Era 10. Priorities in an Era of Scarcity.

"Lester Russell Brown is one of the leading experts on environmental science and is the founder and former president the famous Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to global environmental concerns. He has has been described by the Washington Post as ""one of the world’s most influential thinkers"". Lester is the author of 54 books that have been translated in more than 40 languages. His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate change, and renewable energy.　"

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Who Will Feed China?

Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

Lester Brown

$168

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