Contents of Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures population stabilization energy efficiency renewable energy aquaculture water shortages demographic transition Japan syndrome food scarcity

Outgrowing the Earth:
The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables
and Rising Temperatures

Lester R. Brown

Data for Chapter 1
"Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits"

Data are in Microsoft Excel format.

Figure 1. World Grain Stocks as Days of Consumption, 1960-2004

Figure 2. Grain Production Per Person in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2004

Figure 3. Grain Production, Consumption, and Imports in Japan, 1960-2004

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