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NPR Story
9:50 am
Fri January 4, 2013
'Full Planet, Empty Plates'
By editor
Originally published on Fri January 4, 2013 12:33 pm
In Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, Lester Brown says the world's food supply is tightening, and the reasons are many. People in developing countries are eating more meat, a grain-intensive food; farmers are overpumping, causing water tables to fall; and crop yields have plateaued, despite technological advances.