Is the future of food looking bleak – or better than ever?
At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world.
She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-control crops, vertical farms, robot weedkillers, lab-grown meat, 3D-printed meals, water networks run by supercomputers, cloud seeding and sensors that monitor the microclimate of individual plants. She meets the creative and controversial minds changing the face of modern food production, and tackles fears over genetic modification with hard facts.
The Fate of Food is a fascinating look at the threats and opportunities that lie ahead as we struggle for food security.
Faced with a perilous future, it gives us reason to hope.
- 304 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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EcologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Ddication
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 A Taste of Things to Come
- CHAPTER 2 Killing Fields
- CHAPTER 3 Seeds of Drought
- CHAPTER 4 RoboCrop
- CHAPTER 5 Sensor Sensibility
- CHAPTER 6 Altitude Adjustment
- CHAPTER 7 Tipping the Scales
- CHAPTER 8 Meat Hooked
- CHAPTER 9 Stop the Rot
- CHAPTER 10 Pipe Dreams
- CHAPTER 11 Desperate Measures
- CHAPTER 12 Antiquity Now
- CHAPTER 13 What Rough Feast
- EPILOGUE Growing Up
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Copyright Page
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