One Billion Hungry
For a billion people, hunger is a daily reality. Regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty continue to plague wide swathes of the globe, more than six decades after scientific breakthroughs that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger. With rising food costs, climate change, resource inequality, and a growing global population, the future will be much more difficult.
Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's best experts on global food demands, explores the numerous interconnected concerns crucial to our global food supply, from agricultural breakthroughs to food security politics, in One Billion Hungry. He builds on his famous book The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, highlighting the critical mix of increasing food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction required to eradicate endemic hunger on our world.
Conway tackles a number of pressing issues surrounding world hunger, including:
*How will we feed a growing global population while dealing with a variety of challenges, including climate change?
*What role may the social and natural sciences play in solving problems?
*And how can we enlist the help of both the public and commercial sectors to implement these ideas and make a major difference in the lives of the poor?
Conway is able to convey his well-informed optimism about our collective potential to overcome these basic difficulties if we combine technology with sustainable behaviors and strategic strategy.
Each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas, beginning with a definition of hunger and how it is calculated and moving through issues topically both detailed and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas. Conway addresses the concepts and realities of our global food needs, drawing on the most recent scientific research and the results of projects all over the world: the legacy of the Green Revolution; the impact of market forces on food availability; the promise and perils of genetically modified foods; agricultural innovation in crops, livestock, pest control, soil, and water; and the need to both adapt to and slow the rate of climate change. All readers interested in a multidimensional view of our global food supply, food security, international agricultural development, and sustainability will enjoy One Billion Hungry.
