Consumed : food for a finite planet

Elton, Sarah 1975- (Author).

Summary: "What happens on this planet over the next four decades has the potential to fundamentally alter life as we know it. By 2050, the world's population is expected to reach 9 billion people--thats 9 billion hungry humans--while climate change increasingly interferes with the way we produce our food. At the same time, few of us know where that food comes from, let alone how to grow it, and we are at the mercy of multinationals that control the food chain, with little insight into the damage their methods are inflicting on the planet. This puts our future at risk."--Front flap of dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781443406673 (hc.) :
ISBN: 1443406678 (hc.)
Physical Description: print
348 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: countdown to the future of food -- Table for one billion -- Faster, bigger, richer, weaker -- The money knot -- Local versus industrial -- The twenty-first-century peasant -- Land as good as gold -- Two thousand years of rice -- The genes in our seeds -- A better seed for a hotter planet -- Save our seeds -- From home-cooked to takeout -- The terrorists to the rescue! -- Culinary biodiversity -- Introducing - food -- Conclusion: target 2050.