food supply

Readers will learn about changes in food and farming and how these changes will affect how food is grown and sold.

Between 1958 and 1962, Mao Zedong threw China into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with, and overtake, Britain economically, and in many other ways, in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known with the deaths of at least 45 million people. This is the chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented. Before more recent open laws were passed, access to Communist Party archives had been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. This account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

Examines food supply around the world, discussing different types of farming, globalization of the farm industry, fish as a food source, and other related topics.

Text and photographs document the activities at a variety of wholesale markets that supply meat, fish, produce, baked goods, and dairy products to New York City.

Describes the chemistry of food, digestion and nutrition, food production and processing with emphasis on new sources of food, the causes of the present food crisis, and what is being done to meet the needs of the world's increasing population.

Discusses famine in Africa and examines what has caused it, and what can be done to prevent it in the future.

A new student who claims to be a vampire joins the Watson Elementary School Werewolf Club, but the werewolves discover his true secret when fruits and vegetables begin to disappear all over town.

Describes how people are adapting to the increase in the need for safeguarding water and food supplies caused by global warming.

Explores some of the major environmental challenges the world faces in the areas of food production, rising obesity rates in the developed world, and famine and hunger in underdeveloped nations.