Food or War
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Food or War

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Food or War

About this book

Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to war. But it also presents us with spectacular opportunities for fresh human creativity and technological prowess. Julian Cribb describes a new food system capable of meeting our global needs on this hot and overcrowded planet. This book is for anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet. It is not just timely - its message is of the greatest urgency. Audiences include consumers, 'foodies', policymakers, researchers, cooks, chefs and farmers. Indeed, anyone who cares about their food, where it comes from and what it means for them, their children and grandchildren.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Reviews
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Frontispiece
  10. 1 Food and Conflict: Premonitions: The Crimson Thread - Food Empires - Here Come the Long Ships - Food and the Rise of China - Food and India - Food and War - Fear of Famine
  11. 2 War and Hunger: The Thirty Years' War - Food and Revolution - Killing Farmers - Rice Catastrophe - World War I - World War II - India and Partition - Categories of Food Conflict
  12. 3 The Strategic Importance of Food, Land and Water: Dry Times - Land Losses - Climate Change: Threat Multiplier
  13. 4 Is 'Agriculture' Sustainable?: Agriculture and Climate - Food and Poison - Agriculture and Extinction - The Great Meat Debate - Why Farmers Need a Payrise - Novel Farming Systems
  14. 5 Hotspots for Food Conflict in the Twentyfirst Century: Recent Food Conflicts - Future Food Wars - The Human Tide
  15. 6 Food as an Existential Risk: Extinction and Ecological Collapse - Resource Scarcity - Weapons of Mass Destruction - Climate Change - Poisoned Planet - Food Security - Pandemic Disease - Population and Megacity Failure - Uncontrolled Supertechnologies - Self-Delusion - Solving the Risks
  16. 7 Food for Peace: Hunger and Conflict - Eco-wars - The Price of War - Hunger and Peace - Swords into Ploughshares
  17. 8 Urban Dreams and Nightmares: Homo urbanus - The Nutrient Crisis - Urban Food Loops - Green Cities - Urban Permaculture - Stewards of the Earth - Wise Consumers
  18. 9 The Future of Food: Ecological Farming - Aquafoods - The Urban Food Revolution - Biocultures - Exploring an Unexplored Planet - The Age of Food
  19. 10 Conclusion: Key Recommendations of this Book
  20. The Author
  21. Endnotes
  22. Index