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List of figures, tables and boxes.. Preface.. 1. Introduction.. 2. A Long View.. 3. Growth and Crisis in the Pre-Fossil Era.. 4. The Big Change.. 5. How Other Regions Coped.. 6. Agriculture and the Welfare State: Emerging Problems.. 7. The Neoliberal Decades.. 8. Looking into the Crystal Ball.. 9. Where there's a Will, there's a Way.. References.. Index

Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved living standards but that the realization of this improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization. Inglés