Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch5 Over the next several weeks, we will be releasing Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown in installments. Look for a new chapter about every other week. Supporting data, videos, and …
Earth Policy Release – Full Planet, Empty Plates Chapter Two
Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch2 Earth Policy Release Full Planet, Empty Plates May 9, 2013
Earth Policy Release – Full Planet, Empty Plates Chapter One
We also draw attention to the role of speculative long positions in commodity futures by institutional investors as tracked by the New England Complex Systems Institute www.necsi.edu – Hazel Henderson ,Editor in Chief Chapter 1. Food: The Weak Link Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch1 Earth Policy Release Full Planet, Empty Plates April 9, 2013 …
Earth Policy Release – New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations
New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2013/fpepch1 Earth Policy Release Book Byte February 7, 2013 The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices …
FULL PLANET, EMPTY PLATES: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT FULL PLANET, EMPTY PLATES: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown Full Planet, Empty Plates Buy book button “Could food be the weak link in our early twenty-first civilization, much as it was in so many of the earlier civilizations whose …
Ten Years-So Much Accomplished…So Much To Do
TEN YEARS SO MUCH ACCOMPLISHED…SO MUCH TO DO Research Program | Outreach Effort | People in Action | Highlights | Thanks to You Ten years ago, when we launched the Earth Policy Institute in May 2001, we hoped we could make a difference by offering solutions to the problems facing …
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Book Byte July 14, 2010 A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in late 2007 when wheat-exporting countries, like Russia and …