Do record high grain prices in 1996 signal the start of world food shortages?
Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute, argues that food scarcity is emerging as the defining issue of the post Cold War era. More fundamentally, he suggests that food scarcity may be the first major economic manifestation of an environmentally unsustainable global economy.

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