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Never out of season how having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future

The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food...

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Main Author: Dunn, Rob R. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Food supply.
Food crops.
Food consumption.
Agricultural ecology.
Consumers' preferences.
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Table of Contents:
  • A banana in every bowl
  • An island like ours
  • The perfect pathological storm
  • Escape is temporary
  • My enemy's enemy is my friend
  • Chocolate terrorism
  • The meltdown of the chocolate ecosystem
  • Prospecting for seeds
  • The siege
  • The grass eaters
  • Henry Ford's jungle
  • Why we need wild nature
  • The Red Queen and the long game
  • Fowler's ark
  • Grains, guns, and desertification
  • Preparing for the flood
  • Epilogue: What do I do?

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