num_pages: 280
description: A menu for an edible futureIn a world expected to reach a staggering population of 9 billion by 2050 and with global temperatures rising fast humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. But can we produce enough food to feed ourselves sustainably for an uncertain future? How will agriculture adapt to a climate change? How will climate change determine what we eat? Will we really be eating bugs?Uncertain Harvest questions scientists chefs activists entrepreneurs farmers philosophers and engineers working on the global future of food on how to make a more equitable safe sustainable and plentiful food future. Examining cutting-edge research on the science culture and economics of food the authors present a roadmap for a global food policy while examining eight foods that could save us: algae caribou kale millet tuna crickets milk and rice.
language: English
title: Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet
publisher: University of Regina Press