Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food

Adapted from the conclusion to Eating Tomorrow (New Press 2019)

“Agriculture out of World Trade Organization!” — Street protest, Buenos Aires, December 2017 (photo: Timothy A. Wise)

If anyone at the World Food Prize ceremonies in October 2017 back in Iowa was paying attention, reality was waving its arms in warning about our unsustainable model of agricultural development. Days before, Reuters had reported that the continued development of high-yield agriculture had generated a “global grain…