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Fate of Food

Amanda Little
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      Is the future of food looking bleak – or better than ever?At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world.She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-control crops, vertical farms, robot weedkillers, lab-grown meat, 3D-printed meals, water networks run by supercomputers, cloud seeding and sensors that monitor the microclimate of individual plants. She meets the creative and controversial minds changing the face of modern food production, and tackles fears over genetic modification with hard facts.The Fate of Food is a fascinating look at the threats and opportunities that lie ahead as we struggle for food security.Faced with a perilous future, it gives us reason to hope.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Amanda Little EAN: 9781786076533 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oneworld Publications DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-06-06 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies: food and society, Popular science, Food security and supply, Food and beverage technology, Agricultural science, Sustainable agriculture, Cookery / food and drink / food writing

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      Amanda Little is the author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells – Our Ride to the Renewable Future. An award-winning environmental journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wired, Rolling Stone and the Washington Post, among others. She teaches investigative journalism at Vanderbilt University and lives with her husband and children in Nashville, Tennessee.
      Is the future of food looking bleak – or better than ever?At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world.She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-control crops, vertical farms, robot weedkillers, lab-grown meat, 3D-printed meals, water networks run by supercomputers, cloud seeding and sensors that monitor the microclimate of individual plants. She meets the creative and controversial minds changing the face of modern food production, and tackles fears over genetic modification with hard facts.The Fate of Food is a fascinating look at the threats and opportunities that lie ahead as we struggle for food security.Faced with a perilous future, it gives us reason to hope.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Amanda Little EAN: 9781786076533 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oneworld Publications DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-06-06 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies: food and society, Popular science, Food security and supply, Food and beverage technology, Agricultural science, Sustainable agriculture, Cookery / food and drink / food writing

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      Amanda Little is the author of Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells – Our Ride to the Renewable Future. An award-winning environmental journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wired, Rolling Stone and the Washington Post, among others. She teaches investigative journalism at Vanderbilt University and lives with her husband and children in Nashville, Tennessee.

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