Introduction: Countdown to the Future of Food
Target 2020: Soil
Chapter 1: Table for One Billion
To See Our Future, Visit Sunny India
Chapter 2: Faster, Bigger, Richer, Weaker
The Trouble with the Green Revolution
Chapter 3: The Money Knot
Food Prices, Profits, and the New Global Food Trade
Chapter 4: Local versus Industrial
The Alternative Economy of Food
Chapter 5: The Twenty-First-Century Peasant
But Who Will Grow Our Food?
Chapter 6: Land as Good as Gold
Mega-Parks, Mega-Farms, and the Global Rush for Farmland
Target 2030: Seeds
Chapter 7: Two Thousand Years of Rice
What China Knows That We Don’t
Chapter 8: The Genes in Our Seeds
The Big Business of Food Security
Chapter 9: Lab Rice
A Better Seed for a Hotter Planet
Chapter 10: SOS
Save Our Seeds
Target 2040: Culture
Chapter 11: From Home-Cooked to Takeout
A Culture of Food for the Future
Chapter 12: The Terrorists to the Rescue!
The Pope of Aligot and the French Culinary Resistance
Chapter 13: Culinary Biodiversity
You Are What Your Ancestors Ate
Chapter 14: Introducing…Food
The Culture Shift
Conclusion: Target 2050
The Future
Acknowledgements
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index