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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World | Joel K. Bourne
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An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.Hampton Sides When the demographer Robert Malthus (17661834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern scientific agriculture. In the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented agricultural advancement known as the Green Revolution brought hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, and improved irrigation that drove the greatest population boom in historybut left ecological devastation in its wake. In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic perspective. With a skyrocketing world population and tightening global grain supplies spurring riots and revolutions, humanity must produce as much food in the next four decades as it has since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by centurys end. Writing with an agronomists eye for practical solutions and a journalists keen sense of character, detail, and the natural world, Bourne takes readers from his family farm to international agricultural hotspots to introduce the new generation of farmers and scientists engaged in the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. He discovers young, corporate cowboys trying to revive Ukraine as Europes breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist channeling ancient Chinese traditions, the visionary behind the worlds largest organic sugar-cane plantation, and many other extraordinary individuals struggling to increase food suppliesquickly and sustainablyas droughts, floods, and heat waves hammer crops around the globe. Part history, part reportage and advocacy, The End of Plenty is a panoramic account of the future of food, and a clarion call for anyone concerned about our planet and its people.
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With a variety of information, each chapter in this book went into depth on a specific area of concern in agriculture but at the same time, it did a very good job of weaving all the information together. The best part about reading this was that I was at the greenhouses on the Univesrity of Minnesota Campus while learning all about the work Norman Borlaug did in his career.

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Getting some reading done for school at one of the patios by work 👍 Last book for my class I need to complete before graduation.

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