Consumed : food for a finite planet / Sarah Elton.
Consumed : food for a finite planet / Sarah Elton.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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G 2014/1621
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English
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348 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Countdown to the future of food -- Target 2020: Soil. Table for one billion: to see our future, visit sunny India -- Faster, bigger, richer, weaker : the trouble with the green revolution -- The money knot: food prices, profits, and the new global food trade -- Local versus industrial:...
Target 2030: Seeds. Two thousand years of rice: what China knows that we don't -- The genes in our seeds: the big business of food security -- Lab rice: a better seed for a hotter planet -- SOS: save our seeds.
Target 2040: Culture. From home-cooked to takeout: a culture of food for the future -- The terrorists to the rescue! the pope of Aligot and the French culinary resistance -- Culinary biodiversity: you are what your ancestors ate -- Introducing ... food: the culture shift -- Conclusion: Target 2050:...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Illinois
Date Published
2013.
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Sarah Elton walks fields and farms on three continents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also telling the little-known stories of the people who are working against time to create a new and hopeful future.
By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, and the challenge of feeding this population, along with climate changes, will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. Elton walks fields and farms on three continents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also telling the little-known stories...
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Consumed : food for a finite planet / Sarah Elton.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
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©2013.
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G 2014/1621
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74VKM00JwrKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKM00JwrKb
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ISBN
022609362X (alkaline paper)
9780226093628 (cloth : alkaline paper)
DDC
631.5
MMS ID
991021354829702626
