How to Feed the World

A Factful Guide

Vaclav Smil

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Viking
13 November 2024

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science

A myth-busting book about how the world produces and consumes its food and how to do so without killing the planet

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.

By: Vaclav Smil
Imprint: Viking
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 337g
ISBN: 9780241645406
ISBN 10: 0241645409
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

If you want to understand food - its production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste - then what you are interested in is energy. Vaclav Smil is the world-leading expert on this topic. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and is the author of over forty books, including Numbers Don't Lie, Size and the New York Times bestselling How the World Really Works. He is published in more than 30 languages and no other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in leading scientific journal Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

Reviews for How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil -- BILL GATES A compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of the world and where it's going -- STEVEN PINKER on NUMBERS DON’T LIE