by Paul Roberts · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747588818
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«The End of Food» is Paul Roberts's essay on the crisis of the global food industry, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (390 pages, in English).
Paul Roberts analyzes why mass food production is unsustainable: more than a billion people are overweight and nearly as many go hungry, while intensive agriculture damages the environment. Facing predicted scarcity, he sets out decisions to confront the future of food.
The book, subtitled «The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry», was nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2008.
A work of popular nonfiction for general readers interested in economics, food and sustainability, with a global and accessible approach.
Paul Roberts is an American journalist and author of three non-fiction books, including The End of Oil (2004) and The End of Food (2008). He had before been a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine and writes primarily about "the complex interplay of economics, technology, and the natural world."
