How to feed the world
a factful guide
- ISBN: 9780241645406
- Editorial: Viking Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 320
- Idiomas: Inglés
In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav 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 is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that? Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we? How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet?
How Food Really Works shows how 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. Ultimately, this data-based, rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future.
Introduction
What did agriculture ever do for us?
Why do 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
