(Lire) [Knihy] The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger,
Hotter, Smarter World
By Amanda Little
In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply,
environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of
the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's
most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science,
agriculture, and climate change. Climate models show that global crop
production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought,
heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's
population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how,
really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming
decades?Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-
winning journalist, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as
many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her
from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in
Shanghai, from
