Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet

by Sarah Elton

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil--few of us know where our food comes from, let alone how to grow it--and we are at the mercy of multinational corporations who control the crops and give little thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022609362X
• ISBN13: 9780226093628
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"