How to Feed the World
By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by ta
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Edited by Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
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How to Feed the World edited by Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2018 Jessica Eise and Ken Foster All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 2000 M Street NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036. ISLAND PRESS is a trademark of the Center for Resource Economics. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950979 All Island Press books are printed on environmentally responsible materials. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keywords: agriculture, crops, farming, fertilizers, food waste, international trade, irrigation, pesticides, soil, sustainability
contents
Introduction
Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
Chapter 1 Inhabitants of Earth
165
Nicole J. Olynk Widmar
Chapter 11 The Information Hinge
148
Steven Y. Wu
Chapter 10 Social License to Operate
132
Ken Foster
Chapter 9 Tipping the Scales on Health
115
Thomas W. Hertel
Chapter 8 Spoiled, Rotten, and Left Behind
94
Michael Gunderson, Ariana Torres, Michael Boehlje, and Rhonda Phillips
Chapter 7 Tangled Trade
77
Uris Baldos
Chapter 6 Systems
59
Jeff Dukes and Thomas W. Hertel
Chapter 5 The Technology Ticket
46
Otto Doering and Ann Sorensen
Chapter 4. Our Changing Climate
24
Laura C. Bowling and Keith A. Cherkauer
Chapter 3 The Land That Shapes and Sustains Us
5
Brigitte S. Waldorf
Chapter 2 The Green, Blue, and Gray Water Rainbow
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Jessica Eise
Chapter 12 Achieving Equal Access
Gerald Shively
Conclusion
Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Index
189 207 217 219 221 235 241
Introduction Jessica Eise and Ken Foster
In the chilly Indiana winter of early 2016, we sat down for a meeting. We were in the agricultural economics building at Purdue, which has served as Indiana’s land grant university since 1869, where we work with some of the world’s foremost experts on food, health, and the environment. All those present at this meeting, in their individual research, were seeking answers to the enormous challenge of feeding the world sustainably. Our meeting was an unusual one. We were seeking to determine how we could bring our core expertise together in a way that was accessible for people outside the walls of academia. We wanted people far beyond the labs, classrooms, and fields of Purdue to see how issues as varied as irrigation, tariffs, soil health, and diet decisions interconnect. In doing so, we hoped to highlight the critical challenges we must overcome to feed the world, all the while showing tha
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