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Who Will Feed China?

by Lester R. Brown on August 15, 1994
Its population is growing by 14 million a year, and its demand for food is growing even faster—yet its food-producing capacity is falling steadily. How will the world respond when a country of 1.2 billion or more comes looking for grain?

Published in World Watch Magazine, September/October 1994, Volume 7, No. 5