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The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
W. W. Norton
October 2012
On Sale: September 24, 2012
160 pages
ISBN: 0393344150
EAN: 9780393344158
Kindle: B007P01HBO
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Non-Fiction
With food supplies tightening, countries are competing
for the land and water resources needed to feed their
people. With food scarcity driven by falling water
tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of
arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in
the global struggle for food security. “In this era of
tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is
fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is
the new oil,” Lester R. Brown writes.
What will the
geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by
scarcity and food nationalism? Brown outlines the political
implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing
countries in Africa and elsewhere as well as the world’s
shrinking buffers against poor harvests. With wisdom
accumulated over decades of tracking agricultural issues,
Brown exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the
world is facing.
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