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 2
"Stopping at Seven Billion"

Data are in Microsoft Excel format.

Figure 1. World Grainland Per Person, 1950-2004, With Projection to 2050

Figure 2. The Three-Stage Process of the Demographic Transition

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