Examines ways in which the world is experimenting to produce enough food for its growing population, including farming the sea, new agricultural methods, and new ways of keeping food fresh.
One billion people on the planet do not get enough food every day. This book explores why this is everyone's problem, and helps readers understand how the global food supply is connected to environmental stress. An emphasis is placed on worldwide agricultural practices and innovations.
Discusses the importance of having an adequate supply of food and water to sustain life on Earth, and considers the effects of pursuing this need through various forms of storage and farming methods.
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
