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World supplies and prices of food and energy are intricately linked. Fossil fuel inputs into food production now determine, in the industrial countries, that today's energy price rises will be tomorrow's food price rises. In the developing countries, an inability to be able any longer to afford energy-costly fertiliser essential to the support of "green revolution" crops could spell starvation tomorrow. It can take the equivalent of 12 or more tonnes of oil to land an edible tonne of "luxury" shrimps in some countries, while to feed each person in the UK and the USA now requires close to 0-8 tonnes, or some three times the average per capita fuel use for all purposes in the developing world. While fossil fuel inputs of this order may still be "economic" in the industrial world, they cannot continue for ever. Nor are they a possible model for the developing world to copy. Energy and Food Production provides solid information on the enormous range of energy inputs to produce different kinds of food by the full spectrum of methods from hunter-gathering and substistence farming to "synthetic" protein production. The author explores relationships between energy, land and labour usage ; exposes the amounts of energy used to transport, package, sell, cook, store and process foodstuffs, which are huge compared with the amounts used during growing ; and points out opportunities for conserving fuels.

620.9 --- 631.17 --- Agriculture --- -Agriculture --- -Food industry and trade --- -Food preparation --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economics of energy in general --- Agricultural and farm technology --- Energy consumption --- -Energy consumption --- Food industry and trade --- Energy consumption. --- -Economics of energy in general --- 631.17 Agricultural and farm technology --- 620.9 Economics of energy in general --- Aliments --- Consommation d'énergie --- Commerce --- -620.9 --- -631.17 Agricultural and farm technology --- Agriculture and energy --- Food --- Food technology --- Processing --- Consommation d'énergie. --- Grande-Bretagne --- Consommation d'énergie.

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Energy conservation --- 620.91 --- -Energy policy --- -Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Conservation of energy resources --- Conservation of power resources --- Rational use of energy --- RUE (Rational use of energy) --- Conservation of natural resources --- Energy consumption --- Energy policy --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Energy resources in general. Natural sources of energy --- Government policy --- 620.91 Energy resources in general. Natural sources of energy --- -Energy resources in general. Natural sources of energy --- -620.91 Energy resources in general. Natural sources of energy --- Energy and state --- Energy conservation - Great Britain

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