1. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

2. Chapter 1 Food: The Weak Link
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6. Chapter 2 The Ecology of Population Growth
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10. Chapter 3 Moving Up the Food Chain
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15. Chapter 4 Food or Fuel?
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19. Chapter 5 Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future
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23. Chapter 6 Peak Water and Food Scarcity
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28. Chapter 7 Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
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32. Chapter 8 Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices
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36. Chapter 9 China and the Soybean Challenge
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41. Chapter 10 The Global Land Rush
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44. Chapter 11 Can We Prevent a Food Breakdown?
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46. To learn more about the global food situation…
read Full Planet, Empty
Plates: The New Geopolitics
of Food Scarcity by
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