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

Earth Policy Institute: "The U.S. Great Drought of 2012 has raised corn prices to the highest level in history. The world price of food, which has already doubled over the last decade, is slated to climb higher, ushering in a new wave of food unrest," says Lester R. Brown, author of Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Company). "This year's corn crop shortfall will accelerate the transition from the era of abundance and surpluses to an era of chronic scarcity," notes Brown,...

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