About the Author

Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

"Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come." -- Sustain "[I]t will be an instant classic." -- E. O. Wilson "The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together." -- Paul Ganderton "The book proposes that the challenge of feeding the world is at least as much about energy, water, climate and population. This view is no more than we should expect from Lester Brown, whose forte, eloquently expressed in the course of writing dozens of books over the past four decades, is to emphasize the links that connect all our development sectors, sometimes obviously, sometimes covertly, often crucially." -- Times Higher Education Supplement