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9780887847448

Feeding the Future From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises

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  • ISBN13:

    9780887847448

  • ISBN10:

    0887847447

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-09-20
  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press
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Summary

From global famine to fast-food fat, from mad cows to depleted soil, the world's most pressing problems of food require ingenious, practicable solutions. The brilliant and innovative contributors to Feeding the Future serve them up.In this follow-up Ingenuity Project volume to their bestselling Fueling the Future, editors Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon have gathered together some of the world's leading thinkers on food, including Kelly Brownell, Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, Ian MacLachlan, Carl Safina, and David Wheeler. Their examples of ingenuity encompass emerging technologies, business models for sustainable food production, and solutions to the world's obesity epidemic.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY ERIC SCHLOSSER IX
INTRODUCTION 1(10)
1. SAVING AGRICULTURE FROM ITSELF 11(26)
2. BETTING THE FARM: FOOD SAFETY AND THE BEEF COMMODITY CHAIN 37(34)
3. FISH OR CUT BAIT: SOLUTIONS FOR OUR SEAS 71(26)
4. THE HIGH-TECH MENU 97(28)
5. DIET FOR A SMALLER PLANET: REAL SOURCES OF ABUNDANCE 125(30)
6. OVERFEEDING THE FUTURE 155(36)
7. BRAND BARONS AND THE BUSINESS OF FOOD 191(46)
8. BETWEEN FEAST AND FAMINE: FIXING GLOBAL TRADE 237(22)
9. REVITALIZING THE RANCH: A MEXICAN FARM STORY 259(22)
AFTERWORD 281(10)
BIOGRAPHIES 291(8)
NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 299

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