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Author: Jennifer Cockrall-King
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1616144580

Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

When you're standing in the midst of a supermarket, it's hard to imagine that you're looking at a failing industrial food system. Download Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is really a facade. In fact, there's just a three-day supply of food available for any given city due to complex, just-in-time international supply chains. The system is not only vulnerable, given the reality of food scares, international crises, terrorist attacks, economic upheavals, and natural disasters, but it is also environmentally unsustainable for the long term. As the cold hard facts of peak oil and peak water begin to have an impact, how will we feed a world population of seven billion and growing, most of whom are now urban dwellers?One answer is urban ag Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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