Food fight : misguided policies, supply challenges, and the impending struggle to feed a hungry world /
"Society's most basic challenge is arguably to produce and distribute enough food for its citizens. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Feeding a growing world population is becoming more difficult as food demands rise in the...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the table : threats to food production amidst rising demand
- Population and income growth and food demand in the twenty-first century
- Biofuels : they once seemed like a good idea
- What will we eat and why does it matter?
- Agricultural productivity growth : will it save us from higher food prices and greater hunger?
- Producing food in the right places and with the right inputs matters a lot
- Climate change and pest resistance threaten food production
- Foods that come with claims and policies that support them
- Organic foods : producing less with more
- Genetic engineering and gene editing : putting the brakes on essential innovations
- Small farms : poor farms and poor people
- Local foods : shortchanged by short supply chains
- Animal welfare : good intentions but bad outcomes?
- Food manufacturers and retailers : villains or heroes?
- Waste not, want not?
- Meatless Mondays . . . and Tuesdays and Wednesdays . . .?
- Climate-smart agriculture: hope versus reality
- Policies and strategies to sustainably expand food production.