Food Routes by Robyn Metcalfe - ISBN: 9780262539524
Paperback
Tech transforms farms to tables, revealing the future of food.

Food Routes

Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2020

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Summary

The global food supply chain is in the midst of a transformation, and that change is cause to re-imagine a future food system that actually may look very different from our traditional practice of delivering food from farms to tables. Increasingly, farmers are also engineers, crops are grown in enclosed vertical structures, and “clean meat” is raised in laboratories rather than on the range. Technology and Big Data are changing not only the who and the where, but how food gets our plates- foo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262539524
ISBN-10:0262539527
Author:Robyn Metcalfe
Publisher:Mit Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:15 December 2020
Weight:274g
Dimensions:221mm x 143mm
Series:Mit Press
About The Author

Robyn Metcalfe

Robyn Metcalfe is the founder and director of Food + City, a UT Austin-based lab that focuses on urban food systems. Her work explores current methods of feeding cities and examines how innovations in agriculture and transportation will reshape the food supply chain. She is also an ultramarathoner, a former writer for Sunset Magazine, and holds a Cordon Bleu certificate in culinary arts.

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