Section 4. The blue food revolution: making aquaculture a sustainable food source / Our food systems are in crisis / Sarah Simpson. The effects of COVID-19 will ripple through food systems / Laura Poppick ; How to make the food system more energy efficient / Michael E. Webber ; Feeding a hot, hungry planet / Lisa Palmer ; Long live microbiomes! / Louise Maher-Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson -- Section 2. Innovations in food systems : Growing skyscrapers: the rise of vertical farms / Dickson Despommier ; The future of farming / Andrew Sharpley ; Agroecology is the solution to world hunger / Raj Patel ; Test-tube burger: lab-cultured meat passes the taste test (sort of) / Arielle Duhaime-Ross ; Tweaking vegetables' genes could make them tastier--and you'll get to try them soon / Meghan Bartels ; Faux fish might help aquaculture keep feeding the world / Leslie Nemo ; Spray-on, rinse-off food 'wrapper' can cut plastic packaging / Sam Jones ; Advanced food tracking and packaging will save lives and cut waste / Rona Chandrawati, Bernard S. Meyerson -- Section 3. Controversy surrounding food systems : Organically speaking: the marketing language of organic food / Layla Eplett ; Does the world need GM foods? / Sasha Nemecek ; The truth about genetically modified food / David H. Freedman ; Do seed companies control GM crop research? / the editors ; How biotech crops can crash--and still never fail / Aniket Aga, Maywa Montenegro de Wit ; Designer crops of the future must be better tailored for women in agriculture / Vivian Polar, Matty Dermont ; Should the concept of a food desert be deserted? / Layla Eplett ; Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need / Million Belay, Bridget Mugambe -- Section 4. Food systems and the environment : Can we feed the world and sustain the planet? / Jonathan A. Foley ; Here's how much food contributes to climate change / Andrea Thompson ; These plants can replace meet--but will doing so help the environment? / Shannon Hall ; The blue food revolution: making aquaculture a sustainable food source / Sarah Simpson.
Summary:
"The world population continues to grow, and sources of food that we have come to depend on are increasingly threatened by climate change. Some people fear that there may come a time when there simply will not be enough food to support the earth's human population. However, scientists have been hard at work developing new technologies and techniques to optimize food production and ensure that the food system will be sustainable for years to come. This volume looks at controversial topics related to the science of food, including genetically modified (GM) crops, processed foods, and the quest to find foods that have less of a negative environmental impact"-- Provided by publisher.
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