num_pages: 335
description: A powerful polemic against agricultural technology. Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa Mexico India and the United States Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world Wise reveals is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmerswho already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countriescan show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.
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title: Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food
publisher: The New Press