The fate of food : what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world
by Little, Amanda, 1974- (Author)
Summary
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... Full description
- 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.