Research Catalog

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.

Subjects

• referencia
• gráfico
• référence bibliographique
• graphique
• Food supply
• Population
• Food Supply
• population
• 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
• graph
• reference

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