Losing Ground: Environmental Stress and World Food Prospects

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By Erik P. Eckholm

Norton (for the Worldwatch Institute), 1976, 223 pp

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Much of the title is literal: this is a book about deserts, salination, dust bowls, deforestation, and other factors undermining the ability of the world to feed itself.

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