Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0865475938 / Publisher: North Point Press, October 2000
Explores food production in the new millennium, analyzing the failure of the "green revolution" while discussing the role of indigenous farmers and biotech in revolutionizing the future.
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An eye-opening look at how the world will feed itself in the coming decadesBy now it is clear that the techniques of the first "Green Revolution" that averted mass starvation a generation ago --pesticides, chemical fertilizers, focusing on a few key crops--are threatening the food supply for future generations. Interestingly, the solution to this dilemma seems most likely to emerge from the still-developing world, where alternative methods and philosophies, based on indigenous knowledge and native crops as well as genetic engineering and other technological advances, are still possible.Richard Manning reports on this emerging Green Revolution, placing it in social and political context, and presenting some surprising and controversial solutions to this most pressing environmental problem.
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