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Author: Leon F. Hesser Publisher: Leon Hesser ISBN: 9781930754904 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 296
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The Man Who Fed the World provides a loving and respectful portrait of one of America's greatest heroes. Nobel Peace Prize recipient for averting hunger and famine, Dr. Norman Borlang is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives from starvation-more than any other person in history? Loved by millions around the world, Dr. Borlang is recognized as one of the most influential men of the twentieth century.
Author: Leon F. Hesser Publisher: Leon Hesser ISBN: 9781930754904 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 296
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The Man Who Fed the World provides a loving and respectful portrait of one of America's greatest heroes. Nobel Peace Prize recipient for averting hunger and famine, Dr. Norman Borlang is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives from starvation-more than any other person in history? Loved by millions around the world, Dr. Borlang is recognized as one of the most influential men of the twentieth century.
Author: Noel Vietmeyer Publisher: Book Renter, Incorporated ISBN: 9780578095554 Category : Agriculturists Languages : en Pages : 284
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Norman Borlaug's work in breeding wheat is a large part of the reason the world has not yet run out of food. This is the story of his life and his struggles.
Author: Roger Thurow Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458767337 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 558
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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.
Author: Charles C. Mann Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307961702 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 641
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Author: Joel K. Bourne Jr Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393248046 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 285
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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 In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective. He travels the globe to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists on the front lines of the next green revolution. He visits corporate farmers trying to restore Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist, the agronomist behind the world's largest organic sugarcane plantation, and many other extraordinary farmers, large and small, who are racing to stave off catastrophe as climate change disrupts food production worldwide. A Financial Times Best Book of the Year and a Finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
Author: Howard G Buffett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451687869 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 464
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The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.
Author: Gregory E. Pence Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742508392 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 266
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The phrase genetically modified food conjures images of apples with eyeballs and tomatoes with toes. But the true story behind this technology is much more complex that anyone may realize. Join Pence's investigation of this latest public issue and take a front-row seat at what will surely become the hottest debate since human cloning.
Author: George Stanley McGovern Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684853345 Category : Food relief Languages : en Pages : 184
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In this book, George McGovern lays out a workable and affordable five-point program to end world hunger. And in the midst of this heated debate one compelling moral issue is clear--every major religion and ethical formulation commands its adherents to feed the hungry. We feed the hungry because it is right. McGoven contends that it will also be economically beneficial to all.
Author: M. S. Swaminathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316674002 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 188
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The issues that need to be addressed in combating hunger and achieving food security are highlighted in this book by a great Indian geneticist. It also discusses the major causes of chronic and hidden hunger and emphasises the need to redesign the farming system based on nutritional considerations. The role of an effective monsoon management programme to maximise its benefits is examined. There are chapters that analyse the importance of biodiversity conservation and enhancement and farmer skill development. Important issues to increase agricultural production including investment by financial institutions in agriculture and rural development, women's role in agriculture and youth employment in rural livelihoods are discussed in great detail in the text. The book concludes that there must be synergy between scientific knowledge, political will and farmers' active participation to achieve the goal of overcoming chronic and hidden hunger in the populations of developing countries.
Author: Leon F. Hesser
Author: Leon F. Hesser
Author: Norman Ernest Borlaug
Author: Noel Vietmeyer
Author: Roger Thurow
Author: Charles C. Mann
Author: Joel K. Bourne Jr
Author: Howard G Buffett
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Author: George Stanley McGovern
Author: M. S. Swaminathan