Resources

Cohen, J.E. How many people can the Earth support?( W.W. Norton, 1995).

A balanced look at the planet's capacity to feed the world's population is L.T. Evans's Feeding the ten billion. (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Hart, J.E. and M.O. Lombardi (editors). 2001. Taking sides: Clashing view on controversial global issues. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.&emdash;provides background in a section called "Will the world be able to feed itself in the foreseeable future?"

Heileg, G.K. How many people can be fed on Earth? In The future population of the world: What can we assume today? 2d ed. W. Lutz, ed. Earthscan, 1996.

Mitchell, D.O., M.D. Ingco, and R.C. Duncan. The world food outlook. (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

NASA's SEDAC center has global population grids at http://sedac.ciesin.org

Ruttan, Vernon W. 2000. The continuing challenge of food production. Environment 42(10): 25-30.

Show, M. and M. Strong. Food in the 21st Century: From Science to Sustainable Agriculture. (Washington, D.C.: The IBRD/The World Bank, 2000).

U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization. World agriculture: Towards 2000. U.N. FAO, 1995

Investigation References

Brown, L.R. 1999. Feeding Nine Billion. Chapter 7 in State of the World 1999. New York: W.W. Norton.

Conway, G. 2000. Food for all in the 21st Century. Environment 42(1): 9-18.

Dunbar, B., and A. Kenitzer. 1993. NASA helps provide famine early warning for Africa. Spacelink news release.
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.News/NASA.News.Releases/Previous.News.Releases/93.News.Releases/93-11.News.Releases/93-11-29

Gardner, G. and B. Halweil. 2000. Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed. Chapter 4 in State of the World 2000. New York: W.W. Norton.

Mozambique Agricultural Statistics.
http://www.ine.gov/mz/sector1/agricu.htm

Sen, A. K. 1981. Poverty and famines : an essay on entitlement and deprivation. NewYork : Oxford University Press.

Sill, M. 1992. A geography of war. Geographical Magazine, November: 45-50.

Smith, K.K. 2000. 6,000,000,000 and counting; Feeding a Hungry World. Imaging Notes, 15(1) January/February 2000.

Turner, B. (ed.) 1999. The Statesman's Yearbook. London: Macmillan.

Turner, B.L. II, G. Hyden and R. Kates, (eds.) 1993. Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa. University Press of Florida: Gainesville.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 1998. The State of Food and Agriculture 1998. FAO Agriculture Series No. 31
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9500e/w9500e03.htm#03-I

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 2000. Sixth World Survey
http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/ESS/for-e.htm

USAID Famine Early Warning System
http://www.info.usaid.gov/fews/imagery/sat_afr.html

United States Bureau of the Census. 1998. World Population Profile: 1998. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp98.html

World Food Summit. 1996. Food Security and Nutrition 5.
http://www.fao.org/wfs/final/e/volume1/T5-E.htm#1.Introduction

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