How to Feed the World

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How will we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of challenges. Contributors unite from different perspectives and disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to economics. The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system.

About the author

Jessica Eise is an author and communications researcher at Purdue University's Brian Lamb School of Communication. She is the coauthor of The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture (Routledge, 2017) and other works. Dr. Ken Foster is the former head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and an award-winning professor of agricultural economics. Foster's research and outreach activities have included testimony to Senate committees and state legislative study committees on the competitiveness of livestock markets and the use of contract production.

Summary

An accessible and comprehensive primer of the global food system.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Eise, Jessica Anne (EDT)/ Foster Eise
• Assisted by: Jessica Eise (Editor), Jessica Anne Eise (Editor), Ken Foster (Editor), Kenneth Alan Foster (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781610918831
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-883-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Landwirtschaft, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Politics / Current Events, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food)