Food: Famine and Plenty

The following sections are included:

• Feeding Humanity

• Photosynthesis: The Origin of Food

• The Need for Food

• Food and Health

• The Sources of Food

• The Green Revolution

• Fertilizers

• Pesticides and Pest Control

• Food from Animals

• Soil: The Foundation of Agriculture

• Soil Degradation: Agriculture's Nemesis

• Fish: The Last Wild Harvest

• The Wild Fisheries

• Aquaculture

• Fertilizing the Oceans

• Genetically Modified Crops and Food

• Genetically Engineered Plants

• The Major Genetically Modified Crops

• Public Attitudes to Genetically Modified Crops and Food

• Genetically Modified Crops and the Developing Nations

• Food Prospects for the Twenty-First Century

• References