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By bread alone

Title
  1. By bread alone [by] Lester Brown, with Erik P. Eckholm.
Published by
  1. New York, Praeger [1974]
Author
  1. Brown, Lester R. (Lester Russell), 1934-

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Additional authors
  1. Eckholm, Erik P.
Description
  1. xi, 272 pages illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Food supply
  2. Population
  3. Food Supply
  4. Population
  5. population
  6. Food supply
  7. Voedselvraagstuk
  8. Bevolking
  9. food security
  10. future
  11. food shortage
  12. population growth
  13. birth control
  14. diet
  15. agricultural development
  16. food production
  17. statistical table
  18. Agricultural development
  19. Food and nutrition
  20. RESOURCES
  21. POPULATION
  22. sécurité alimentaire
  23. futur
  24. pénurie alimentaire
  25. croissance démographique
  26. régulation des naissances
  27. régime alimentaire
  28. développement agricole
  29. production alimentaire
  30. tableau statistique
  31. seguridad alimentaria
  32. futuro
  33. escasez de alimentos
  34. crecimiento demográfico
  35. control de la natalidad
  36. régimen alimentario
  37. desarrollo agrícola
  38. producción alimentaria
  39. cuadros estadísticos
  40. developed countries
  41. developing countries
  42. pays développés
  43. pays en développement
  44. países desarrollados
  45. países en desarrollo
Genre/Form
  1. graph.
  2. reference.
  3. graphique.
  4. référence bibliographique.
  5. gráfico.
  6. referencia.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "Published for the Overseas Development Council."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [255]-261.