Vaclav Smil
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
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How Food Really Works is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of food,explaining 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.
Vaclav Smil's "How Food Really Works" is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of food, explaining 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. It is weighted with statistics but has a light and irresistible narrative.
Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more’ BILL GATES
‘Concise and erudite . . . How to Feed the World is weighted with statistics, but there is something light and irresistible about the way Smil structures his argument and propels his narrative . . . The breadth of Smil’s knowledge is as impressive as the depth’ Talha Burki, Lancet
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.
‘There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil’ GUARDIAN
Weight: 470g
Dimension: 241 x 163 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241645390
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