The End of Plenty

Informationen zum Autor Joel K. Bourne Jr. has a BS in agronomy from North Carolina State University and an MS in journalism from Columbia University. A contributing writer for National Geographic , he has written for Audubon , Science , and Outside , among others. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. Klappentext In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our fight against devastating world hunger in dramatic perspective. He travels the globe to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists on the front lines of the next green revolution. He visits corporate farmers trying to restore Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist, the agronomist behind the world's largest organic sugarcane plantation, and many other extraordinary farmers, large and small, who are racing to stave off catastrophe as climate change disrupts food production worldwide. A Financial Times Best Book of the Year and a Finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Product details

• Authors: Joel K. Bourne, Bourne Joel K.
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2016
• EAN: 9780393352962
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35296-2
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Food security & supply, Agricultural science, Agronomy & crop production, Food security and supply, Agronomy and crop production