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The fate of food : what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world / Amanda Little.

Lippincott Library HD9000.5 .L57 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Little, Amanda, 1974- author.
Contributor:
Class of 1932 Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Food supply--Environmental aspects.
Food supply.
Food security.
Sustainable agriculture.
Physical Description:
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Harmony Books, [2019]
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-320) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
ISBN:
9780804189033
080418903X
OCLC:
1057732376

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