Title: The fate of food : what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world /
Authors: Little, Amanda, 1974-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food supply Environmental aspects.; Food security; Sustainable agriculture; Food security; Food supply Environmental aspects; Sustainable agriculture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy).; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness.
Abstract: "In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change"--
Contents: Prologue: future shock -- A taste of things to come -- killing fields -- Gene therapy -- Robocrop -- Sensor sensibility -- City, slicker -- Tipping the scales -- Meat hooked -- Wasting away -- Pipe dreams -- Desperate measures -- Back to the future -- What rough feast -- Epilogue: growing up.