Food & Agriculture Books

Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them
by Tim Lang
Review
The Incredible Journey of Plants
by Stefano Mancuso
Review
Food or War
by Julian Cribb
Review
Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
by Guy Crosby
Review
Wildly Successful Farming
by Brian DeVore
Review
Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
by Julie Guthman
Review
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
by David Beerling
Review
Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
by Amanda Little
Review
The Way We Eat Now
by Bee Wilson
Review
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
by Lauren E. Oakes
Review
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
by Stefano Mancuso
Review
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth
by Charles Massy
Review
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food
by Jacy Reese
Review
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
by Lee Van Der Voo
Review
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
by Marion Nestle
Review
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
Review
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by Deborah Blum
Review
Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
by Nicola Temple
Review
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
by Mark Lynas
Review
The Psychobiotic Revolution
by Scott C Anderson, John F. Cryan Ph.D, and Ted Dinan M.D. Ph.D
Review
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
by Richard Mabey
Review
Triumph of Seeds
by Thor Hanson
Review
Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
by Matthew Smith
Review
Sustainability: A History
by Jeremy L. Caradonna
Review
Marine Community Ecology and Conservation
by Mark D. Bertness, John F. Bruno, Brian R. Silliman, and John J. Stachowicz
Review
Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
by Anthony D. Barnosky
Review
Big Ratchet
by Ruth DeFries
Review
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
by Philip Lymbery
Review
Proof: The Science of Booze
by Adam Rogers
Review
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
by Courtney White
Review
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by Kristin Ohlson
Review
Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
by Peter Crane
Review
The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
by Sandra Markle
Review
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History
by Lester R Brown
Review
The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen
The Kingdom of Fungi
by Jens H. Petersen
Review
Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life
by David Moore
Review
Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet
by Sarah Elton
Review
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
by John Grant
Review
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Robert Paarlberg
Review
Seeds: Time Capsules of Life
by Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler
Review
Biotechnology for Beginners
by Reinhard Renneberg
Review
Diapause in Aquatic Invertebrates: Theory and Human Use
by Victor R. Alekseev, Bart De Stasio, and John J. Gilbert
Review
What a Plant Knows
by Daniel Chamovitz
Review

Articles

Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world
We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable
Self-watering soil could transform farming
A new way to get P from pee
Expanding marine protected areas by 5% could boost fish yields by 20% – but there’s a catch
Droplets of an herbicide-loaded hydrogel stick their landing
Spanish to make fertilizer from green hydrogen
Biological Fungicide Clears Wheat of Rust Disease in European Field Trial
Are young trees or old forests more important for slowing climate change?
Poisons used to make food more beautiful, last longer
The Age of Agrochemicals is Ending: It’s Time for Agricultural Biotechnology
New Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Perfectly Ripe Peaches for Harvest
Battery components recycled into fertilizer
Boston Dynamics’ Robodog Roams New Zealand Countryside with a New Purpose: Sheep Herding
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming
Parents call for virtual school for Scottish pupils
Autonomous farm work – enter the robots
Yeast thriving in hydrogen hints at possibility of life on exoplanets
UK Crop Scientists Benefit From Next Generation Research Computing Platform
Mentorship is Critical to Success
Nanosensors can alert farmers when plants are stressed
Lab-Grown Meat Climbs to New Heights on Scaffolds of Soy
A One-Time Poultry Farmer Invents the Future of Refrigeration
New sensor could help prevent food waste
Meet The Companies Waging War On Sugar And Diabetes
Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life
Knowing how plants and microbes work together can boost crop yields
Old mattresses and a little chemistry help Syrian refugees grow food in the desert
Feeding Seaweed to Cows Could Curb Their Methane-Laden Burps
The time is now for edible packaging
Clever farming in changing times
Modeling Spaghetti’s Curls
Less ploughing leads to higher crop yields
Dutch Startup Gets €9M to Create First Lab-Grown Pork Prototype
Cows wearing VR headsets might produce better milk
Plasmonics-Based Light Detector Could Support Precision Agriculture
4 Products That Make Sense To Manufacture In Orbit
Plants Will Allow Astronauts to Make Medicines in Space
Polymer particles protect micronutrients to fortify food
Going entirely organic could mean food emissions up 70% in England and Wales
Computationally designed enzyme inhibitors overcome pesticide resistance
An ancient remedy might do what no-calorie sweeteners could not
Steaks in spaaaaace: ISS experiments with 3D-printed meat in microgravity
Engineered Crop Plants Produce Fat Molecules for Formula Milk
A Software Update Will Instruct Space Tomatoes To Sprout
British farm moo-ves into new tech with 5G collars on cows
Microbes and renewable energy turn carbon dioxide into edible protein
New ways to make vertical farming stack up
10,000-year-old beans could avert the catastrophe lurking in our food
Scientists Create a Healthier Butter-Like Spread Made from 80 Per Cent Water

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