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With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. "In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil," Lester R. Brown writes.

What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by scarcity and food nationalism? Brown outlines the political implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing countries in Africa and elsewhere as well as the world's shrinking buffers against poor harvests. With wisdom accumulated over decades of tracking agricultural issues, Brown exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the world is facing.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• 1 Food: The Weak Link(p. 3)
• 2 The Ecology of Population Growth(p. 15)
• 3 Moving Up the Food Chain(p. 24)
• 4 Food or Fuel?(p. 36)
• 5 Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future(p. 45)
• 6 Peak Water and Food Scarcity(p. 57)
• 7 Grain Yields Starting to Plateau(p. 72)
• 8 Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices(p. 83)
• 9 China and the Soybean Challenge(p. 93)
• 10 The Global Land Rush(p. 101)
• 11 Can We Prevent a Food Breakdown?(p. 114)
• Index(p. 125)
• Acknowledgements(p. 137)
• About the Author(p. 143)
• Permission for reprinting or excerpting portions of the manuscript can be obtained from Reah Janise Kauffman at Earth Policy Institute. For full citations, data, and additional information on the topics discussed in this book, see www.earth-policy.org.

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Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.