How to Feed the World

Practical and accessible solutions to our future food crisesBy 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change.

How will we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one.

Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of challenges.

Contributors unite from different perspectives and disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to economics.

The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system.