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| Hot, Hungry Planet : The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change |
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| Acknowledgments | | ix | | | 1 Introduction: The Fight to Close the Food Gap |
| | 1 | (18) | | | | | 19 | (23) | | 3 Soils, Sylvan Pastures, and Sustainability |
| | 42 | (17) | | 4 California and Syria: A Tale of Two Droughts |
| | 59 | (24) | | | | 5 Population, Health, and Environment Powerfully Working Together |
| | 83 | (16) | | 6 India's Climate-Smart Villages |
| | 99 | (23) | | | 122 | (23) | | | 145 | (16) | | | | | 161 | (24) | | | 185 | (14) | | Notes | | 199 | (22) | | Index | | 221 | |
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A journalist who has spent years travelling the globe and documenting people who are working to close the food gap through cutting-edge innovations and agricultural advances, discusses the biggest challenges facing Earth and its population: climate change and global hunger.
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LISA PALMER is a journalist and research fellow who has documented the science, environment, and social challenges of a changing global environment for over 17 years. Palmer is presently a resident senior fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Previously, she was a public policy scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and is one of the few journalists globally to achieve this prestigious distinction. She lives in Maryland.
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Palmer, a journalist and public-policy scholar, traveled the world to uncover the connections between looming global food shortages and the practices that are causing global warming. Today one in six people worldwide goes to bed hungry because food is too expensive or not available. The earth's human population will exceed 9.6 billion by 2050. What will all those people eat? Certainly, they will need to consume less meat: 12 pounds of grain are needed to produce one pound of beef. Palmer illuminates the cruel choices food crises force upon women, including female fish sellers who are forced to have sex with the men who bring the catch of the day in order to feed their families, even at the risk of contracting HIV. Palmer also explains the dire consequences of a growing global middle class that is "hungering for more meat and dairy" and the ecological folly of the ongoing clearing of grasslands and forests to graze cattle and grow oil palm trees. But she also sees hope in new and diverse economic opportunities based on restoring and nurturing the environment. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
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