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In this provocative book the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving the status of women reducing racism and religious prejudice reforming the agricultural system and shrinking the growing gap between rich and poor.
"This ambitious enlightened handbook is a cornucopia of strategies and ideas for concerned citizens and policymakers."--Publishers Weekly "Give equal education and power to women throughout the world argue the authors: when that happens birth rates fall and food supplies go up."--San Francisco Chronicle (Best Bets of 1995) " The book] can help us understand the past and possible future of the meals most Westerners take for granted."--Bill McKibben New York Review of Books "A well-reasoned account of how poverty forces unsustainable use of natural resources . . . a careful and balanced treatment of developments in agriculture . . . that may help food production to stay ahead of population growth."--Basia Zaba Nature "This generation faces a set of challenges unprecedented in their scope and severity and in the shortness of time left to resolve them. . . . The Stork and the Plow sets these out thoughtfully and] accurately. . . . We can all hope this urgent message is carefully heeded."--Henry W. Kendall Nobel laureate and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Physics MIT "A wonderful piece of work."--Partha Dasgupta American Scientist"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich, recipients of the 1994 Sasakawa United Nations Environment Prize and the Heinz Foundation Prize for Environmental Achievement, teach at Stanford University. Gretchen C. Daily is a Bing interdisciplinary research scientist at Stanford University and a Pew Fellow.
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