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With skyrocketing population and tightening grain supplies spurring riots, revolutions, and immigration around the globe, experts now say we must grow as much food in the next four decades as we have since the beginning of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet climate change could render half our farmland useless by century’s end.
Bourne takes readers from his own family farm to international agricultural hotspots to introduce a new generation of farmers and scientists engaged in the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. The stakes could not be higher.