“Reading World on the Edge brings topics ranging from crop failures to state failures together in a way that no series of blog posts could…Brown draws these connections with both scientific rigor and the patience of a committed teacher.” —Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Sustainablog.org
Table of Contents
1. Food: The Weak Link (pdf) (data)
2. The Ecology of Population Growth (pdf) (data)
3. Moving Up the Food Chain (pdf) (data)
4. Food or Fuel? (pdf) (data)
5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future (pdf) (data)
6. Peak Water and Food Scarcity (pdf) (data)
7. Grain Yields Starting to Plateau (pdf) (data)
8. Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices (pdf) (data)
9. China and the Soybean Challenge (pdf) (data)
10. The Global Land Rush (pdf) (data)
11. Can We Prevent a Food Breakdown? (pdf) (data)
Additional Resources (pdf)
Endnotes (pdf)
Index, Acknowledgements & About the Author (pdf)
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Data