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Barcode30293102284416
LocationClark County
Call No363.8 Smil
TitleHow to feed the world : the history and future of food / Vaclav Smil.
AuthorSmil, Vaclav, author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102284416363.8 Smil3/18/2025 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593834510 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0593834518 (hardcover)
Personal Name Smil, Vaclav, author.
Title Statement How to feed the world : the history and future of food / Vaclav Smil.
Edition Statement First United States edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
Physical Description 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-247) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- What did agriculture ever do for us? -- Why did we eat lots of some plants and not others? -- The limit of what we can grow -- Why do we eat some animals and not others? -- What's more important: food or smartphones? -- What should you eat to be healthy? -- Feeding a growing population with reduced environmental impacts: dubious solutions -- Feeding a growing population: what would work.
Summary, Etc. An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food -- and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet. We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. As a result, in our economic, political, and everyday choices, we take for granted and fail to prioritize the thing that makes all our lives possible: food. In this ambitious, myth-busting book, Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today: why are some of the world's biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations? Why do we waste so much food and how can we solve that? Could the whole planet go vegan and be healthy? Should it? He explores the global history of food production to understand why we farm some animals and not others, why most of the world's calories come from just a few foodstuffs, and how this might change in the future. How to Feed the World is the data-based, rigorously researched guide that offers solutions to our broken global food system.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Food supply.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sustainable agriculture.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Agricultural productivity.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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