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100 1 $aBrown, Lester R.$q(Lester Russell),$d1934-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091334
245 10 $aWho will feed China? :$bwake-up call for a small planet /$cLester R. Brown.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a163 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aWorldwatch environmental alert series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-157) and index.
520 $aTo feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices.
520 8 $aIn Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year.
520 8 $aWhen Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands.
650 0 $aFood supply$zChina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103998
650 0 $aFood supply.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050339
650 0 $aAgriculture and state$zChina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100822
830 0 $aWorldwatch environmental alert series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92045081
852 00 $bleh$hHD9016.C62$iB76 1995
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