BIBFRAME Work

Title

Food fight

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Sexton, Richard J., 1957- (author )

Subject

• Food supply--Government policy--United States--21st century (LCSH)
• Food supply--Government policy--Europe--21st century (LCSH)
• Food security--Climatic factors--21st century (LCSH)
• Agriculture and state--Europe--21st century (LCSH)
• Agriculture and state--United States--21st century (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: HD9006 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 363.8/561094 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Society's most basic challenge is arguably to produce and distribute enough food for its citizens. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Feeding a growing world population is becoming more difficult as food demands rise in the face of climate change, pest resistance to traditional treatments, and misguided government policies that limit how much food ends up on our plates. Policies to support biofuels, organic agriculture, local foods, and small farms and to oppose genetically modified foods all reduce food production on existing land. This leads to higher food prices, increased carbon emissions, and less natural habitat as cropland expands. Food Fight documents the challenges to adequately feeding the world in the twenty-first century and illustrates the ways in which contemporary food policies in the United States, Europe, and beyond imperil food security. Richard J. Sexton provides a window into the world of modern agriculture and food-supply chains. He separates the wheat from the chaff to distinguish policies that will limit, or expand, the global food supply, and he explains how we can construct a food system that forestalls future hunger and environmental degradation"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Setting the table : threats to food production amidst rising demand -- Population and income growth and food demand in the twenty-first century -- Biofuels : they once seemed like a good idea -- What will we eat and why does it matter? -- Agricultural productivity growth : will it save us from higher food prices and greater hunger? -- Producing food in the right places and with the right inputs matters a lot -- Climate change and pest resistance threaten food production -- Foods that come with claims and policies that support them -- Organic foods : producing less with more -- Genetic engineering and gene editing : putting the brakes on essential innovations -- Small farms : poor farms and poor people -- Local foods : shortchanged by short supply chains -- Animal welfare : good intentions but bad outcomes? -- Food manufacturers and retailers : villains or heroes? -- Waste not, want not? -- Meatless Mondays . . . and Tuesdays and Wednesdays . . .? -- Climate-smart agriculture: hope versus reality -- Policies and strategies to sustainably expand food production.

Authorized Access Point

Sexton, Richard J., 1957-. Food fight

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T21:56:43.303846+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24024217

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• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
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