Examines the ways people around the globe are helping the global food shortage by implementing new agricultural and food processing technology. Argues that food will become a precious commodity unless something is done now, before the Earth warms much more.
An adaptation of the book by Michael Pollan for young readers. Follows the path of food from its source to its final meal to discover what Americans eat and its economic, health, and environmental impact.
Examines the problem of hunger, and looks at what is being done to feed the world's people, discussing famine relief, poverty and debt reduction, strategies to grow more food, soil care, and other topics.
Contains twenty-seven articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to food, addressing questions about the safety of America's food supply, how farms should be operated, the causes of obesity, and how hunger can be reduced.
Studies the political, social, and scientific-technical reasons for world food shortages, and focuses on possible approaches to increasing food production.
Discusses world starvation, its escalation because of poverty and inequities in distributing a limited food supply, and past and present efforts to alleviate the problem.
Draws from interviews with hundreds of survivors to provide information about how the Communist reforms instituted in China in the years between 1958 and 1962, and the reluctance of officials to oppose Mao Zedong, led to massive crop failures and famine that claimed millions of lives.
