"This is the ultimate survival guide for our species. Lester Brown plots a path around and beyond the looming environmental abyss with courage, compassion and immense wisdom." —Jonathan Watts, Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian and author of When A Billion Chinese Jump on World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
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