Elton, Sarah, 1975-
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.;©2013
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
- 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: the alternative economy of food — The twenty-first-century peasant: but who will brow our food? — Land as good as gold: mega-parks, mega-farms, and the global rush for farmland
- 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: the future.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Alternative agriculture.
- Organic farming.
- Agricultural ecology.
- Food supply.
Requested by Wittenbreer, B