Eating Tomorrow

Zusatztext Praise for Eating Tomorrow : A powerful polemic against agricultural technology. Nature Read Eating Tomorrow . . . . This book promises to outrage and inform you to say no to agribusiness. It's well-written! inspiring! and incisive. Counterpunch Wise does see hope in the small-plot farmers of the world who are rising in protest. His report will interest readers concerned about human rights and the environment. Booklist A grave and timely look at the future of feeding the planet. Kirkus Reviews Eating Tomorrow is a wake-up call about the future of food. Vandana Shiva! author of Who Really Feeds the World? and Soil Not Oil Wise exposes our consuming obsession with corporate agriculture. Frances Moore Lappé! author of Diet for a Small Planet I recommend Eating Tomorrow to anyone who wants to understand how the industrial food system is destroying our health! biosphere! and food culture. Million Belay! coordinator! Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Wise's writing is riveting. Ricardo J. Salvador! director and senior scientist! Food & Environment Program! Union of Concerned Scientists Eating Tomorrow is a tour de force on the global struggle for economic! social! and cultural rights! guided by a writer who takes us into corporate boardrooms and farmers' fields. Salil Shetty! former secretary general! Amnesty International! and currently senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School! Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Tim Wise's Eating Tomorrow reveals the stunning disconnect between what is needed to address future food shocks and the scheme by multinational corporations to squeeze every penny from the poorest people in the world. Wenonah Hauter! author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America and executive director of Food & Water Watch There is a battle for the future of food! and Eating Tomorrow shifts the frontlines. Oliver De Schutter! co-chair! International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems! and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Informationen zum Autor Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." -Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050-at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food po...

Praise for Eating Tomorrow:
“A powerful polemic against agricultural technology.”
—Nature “Read Eating Tomorrow. . . . This book promises to outrage and inform you to say no to agribusiness. It’s well-written, inspiring, and incisive.”
—Counterpunch

“Wise does see hope in the small-plot farmers of the world who are rising in protest. His report will interest readers concerned about human rights and the environment.”
—Booklist

“A grave and timely look at the future of feeding the planet.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Eating Tomorrow is a wake-up call about the future of food.”
—Vandana Shiva, author of Who Really Feeds the World? and Soil Not Oil

“Wise exposes our consuming obsession with corporate agriculture.”
—Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet

“I recommend Eating Tomorrow to anyone who wants to understand how the industrial food system is destroying our health, biosphere, and food culture.”
—Million Belay, coordinator, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

“Wise’s writing is riveting.”
—Ricardo J. Salvador, director and senior scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

“Eating Tomorrow is a tour de force on the global struggle for economic, social, and cultural rights, guided by a writer who takes us into corporate boardrooms and farmers’ fields.”
—Salil Shetty, former secretary general, Amnesty International, and currently senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

“Tim Wise’s Eating Tomorrow reveals the stunning disconnect between what is needed to address future food shocks and the scheme by multinational corporations to squeeze every penny from the poorest people in the world.”
—Wenonah Hauter, author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America and executive director of Food & Water Watch

“There is a battle for the future of food, and Eating Tomorrow shifts the frontlines.”
—Oliver De Schutter, co-chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Autorentext

Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute, collaborating with director Frances Moore Lappé to start its new Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Klappentext

From the Small Planet Institute, a major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without the help of GMOs.

Zusammenfassung

"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology."
*Nature*

A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert

Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests.

Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmerswho already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countriescan show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.