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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Elton, Sarah, 1975-     Subjects     Sustainable agriculture.     Alternative agriculture.     Organic farming.     Agricultural ecology.     Food supply.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Elton, Sarah, 1975-       by title:      Consumed : food for ...         MARC Display

Consumed : food for a finite planet / Sarah Elton. by Elton, Sarah, 1975- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Subjects Sustainable agriculture.   Alternative agriculture.   Organic farming.   Agricultural ecology.   Food supply. ISBN:  9780226093628 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 022609362X (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  348 pages ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction: Countdown to the future of food -- Target 2020: Soil. Table for one billion: to see our future, visit sunny India -- Faster, bigger, richer, weaker : the trouble with the green revolution -- The money knot: food prices, profits, and the new global food trade -- Local versus industrial: the alternative economy of food -- The twenty-first-century peasant: but who will brow our food? -- Land as good as gold: mega-parks, mega-farms, and the global rush for farmland Target 2030: Seeds. Two thousand years of rice: what China knows that we don't -- The genes in our seeds: the big business of food security -- Lab rice: a better seed for a hotter planet -- SOS: save our seeds Target 2040: Culture. From home-cooked to takeout: a culture of food for the future -- The terrorists to the rescue! the pope of Aligot and the French culinary resistance -- Culinary biodiversity: you are what your ancestors ate -- Introducing ... food: the culture shift -- Conclusion: Target 2050: the future. Requests:  0 Summary:  Sarah Elton walks fields and farms on three continents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also telling the little-known stories of the people who are working against time to create a new and hopeful future.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 631.5 El Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 631.5 El Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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