Overview
- Contributors from around the world represent a wide range of academic disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds
- An invaluable primer that fills a need for undergraduate and graduate courses focused on key issues facing the food system
- Draws on practical expertise from one of the country’s premier land grant universities
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How to Feed the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomy and hydrology to agricultural economy and communication. Hailing from Germany, the Philippines, the U.S., Ecuador, and beyond, the contributors weave their own life experiences into their chapters, connecting global issues to our tangible, day-to-day existence. Across every chapter, a similar theme emerges: these are not simple problems, yet we can overcome them. Doing so will require cooperation between farmers, scientists, policy makers, consumers, and many others.
The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system. Readers will not only get a solid grounding in key issues, but be challenged to investigate further and contribute to the paramount effort to feed the world.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
She is coauthor of The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture (Routledge, 2017) and other works. Jessica formerly served as director of communications for Purdue’s Department of Agricultural Economics, new media specialist in DC and international media consultant. She has a master’s in journalism and international relations from New York University and a bachelor’s in political science and international studies from Saint Louis University. Jessica’s pursuits have carried her across the nation and globe and afforded her opportunities such as interviewing two presidents, reporting on the legacy of US intervention in Nicaragua and writing on the former home to the dodo bird, the island of Mauritius. She speaks fluent Spanish, some German and a smattering of Arabic.
Ken Foster is a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. He teaches agricultural price analysis and applied time series analysis. Foster served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 2008 to 2017. He was the Chair of the National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators and has been recognized nationally for his teaching, graduate mentorship, and outreach activities. His current research focuses on coffee and cacao storage and the associated linkages to food quality, food waste, and farm household income.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Feed the World
Editors: Jessica Eise, Kenneth Alan Foster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-885-5
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Jessica Eise and Ken Foster 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-885-5Published: 13 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Food Science, Environmental Politics, Climate Change, Agriculture