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The fate of food what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world

Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion...

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Main Author: Little, Amanda, 1974- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harmony Books, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Food supply > Environmental aspects.
Food security.
Sustainable agriculture.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- A taste of things to come -- Killing fields -- Seeds of drought -- Robocrop -- Sensor sensibility -- Altitude adjustment -- Tipping the scales -- Meat hooked -- Stop the rot -- Pipe dreams -- Desperate measures -- Antiquity now -- What rough feast -- Epilogue: Growing up. 
520 |a Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? Journalist Amanda Little spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia. Through her interviews and adventures with farmers, scientists, activists, and engineers, Little tells the story of human innovation and explores approaches both new and old to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. She meets small permaculture farmers and "Big Food" executives, botanists studying ancient superfoods and Kenyan farmers growing the country's first GMO corn. She travels to places that might seem irrelevant to the future of food yet surprisingly play a critical role: a California sewage plant, a U.S. Army research lab, even the inside of a monsoon cloud above Mumbai. Little asks tough questions: Can GMOs actually be good for the environment and for us? Are we facing the end of animal meat? What will it take to eliminate harmful chemicals from farming? How can a clean, climate-resilient food supply become accessible to all? 
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