Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Pres, 2001. Reprint. Octavo in pictorial wraps; 247 pp: illustrations, maps (b&w); 24 cm Fine; a clean and tight copy. Paperback. ISBN: 9780521640817

A fascinating and accessible account of the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years which illuminates our present position and provides pointers towards possible future paths to food security for the planet.Contents: 1. Introduction: timebomb or treadmill?. 2. Reaching five million (to 8000 B.C.). 3. Towards fifty million (8000 B.C.-2000 B.C.). 4. The first half-billion (2000 B.C.-1500 A.D.). 5. Towards the first billion (1500-1825). 6. The second billion (1825-1927). 7. The third billion (1927-1960). 8. The fourth billion (1960-1975). 9. The fifth billion (1975-1986). 10. The sixth billion (1986-1998/9). 11. What the world eats now. 12. Feeding the ten billion.