Feeding the World
A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
$70.86
- Paperback
390 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2001
Summary
A realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed an expanding global population.This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth by the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity can produce enough food to support healthy and vigorous lives for all these people without irreparably damaging the integrity of the biosphere.What makes this book different fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262692717 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262692716 |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 390 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
“Feeding the World is a refreshing addition to the substantial body of literature on the future of the world’s food supply.” - Michael B. Cohen, American Scientist
About The Author
Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote on his website that “there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
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