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‘I was told I was a complete idiot’ about organic farming, Charles said day before becoming king -- The Guardian (17 September 2022)

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• Stead, Victoria, and Melinda Hinkson, Eds. 2022. Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Springer. [Open Access] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0
  
  
• Meat the Future -- Bullfrog Films (2021, 88 min.)
  
  
• BBC Future FOLLOW THE FOOD SERIES in association with CORTEVA Agriscience
  
  
  • BBC Future Follow the Food
    • How a 'transfarmation' can help the climate -- Christine Ro
    • How Covid has reshaped the food chain -- James Wong
    • How we can reach for a food utopia -- James Wong
    • How we can adapt plants to save our planet -- James Wong
    • The reasons to be hopeful our food will fix the planet -- James Wong
    • The foods that reverse climate change -- Chloe Berge
    • The simple food that fights climate change -- Rachel Lovell
    • How modern food can regain its nutrients -- Rachel Lovell
    • Nanoclay: the liquid turning desert to farmland -- Rachel Lovell
    • The reason we’re running out of farmers -- Amy Booth
    • Why we still haven't solved global food insecurity -- William Park
    • How to feed the world in the next crisis -- William Park
    • The way to cut your food’s climate emissions -- Sarah Bridle
    • The drones watching over cattle where cowboys cannot reach -- Daliah Singer
    • The digital port that was prepared for Covid -- Enrique César López Veiga
    • The miller sending flour to people’s homes -- Harold Wilken
    • The fisherman selling his catch on social media -- Alan-David Mundy
    • The food workers producing miracles in a crisis -- James Wong
    • The green sludge that could transform our diets -- Abigail Beall
    • The ‘invisible’ women at the heart of the chocolate industry -- Jez Fredenburgh
    • Can we save the bees that feed the world? -- Christine Ro
    • How farming in forests could sustain the planet -- Sophie Yeo
    • Why food's plastic problem is bigger than we realise -- Grace Browne
    • How to fix our broken food system -- JJ Ramberg
    • Five ways we can feed the world in 2050 -- Greg Foot
    • How farming can help to heal nature -- Martha Henriques
      
      
  • BBC Future Follow the Food, Specials
    • Follow the food chain (22:52)
    • The fight for food security (22:32)
    • The carbon challenge (22:24)
      
      
  • BBC Future Follow the Food, Series Three
    • Ep1 Foodtopia (23:13)
    • Ep2 You are what your food eats (22:52)
      
      
  • BBC Future Follow the Food, Series Two
    • Ep1 Farmers on the front line (21:40)
    • Ep2 Seeds of life (21:32)
    • Ep3 Growing new farmers (21:56)
    • Ep4 It never rains, it pours (22:17)
    • Ep5 The promised land (21:39)
    • Ep6 Urban farming (23:18)
    • Ep7 A smarter harvest (23:08)
    • Ep8 Consumer power (22:41)
      
      
  • BBC Future Follow the Food, Series One
    • Ep1 Closing the gap (19:32)
    • Ep2 The Water Challenge (22:27)
    • Ep3 Generation Farmer (22:44)
    • Ep4 Hi-tech solutions (22:59)
    • Ep5 Wasting waste (22:12)
    • Ep6 Better food (22:28)
    • Ep7 Soil: The new gold rush (22:55)
    • Ep8 Sustainable food systems (23:16)
      
      
• ‘I Know What the End of the World Looks Like’-- The New York Times (09 January 2022)
  
  
• David Chang Envisions the Future of Food -- The New Yorker (03 November 2021)
  
  
• David Chang Discusses Edible Bugs, Robot-Made Pizza, and the Future of Food -- The New Yorker (30 October 2021)
  
  
• The everyday foods that could become luxuries -- BBCfuture (26 September 2021)
  
  
• Amanda Little: What Is The Future Of Our Food? [Part 4 of TED Radio Hour episode: The Food Connection] -- NPR (03 September 2021)
  
  
• Prince Charles: small-scale family farms must be at heart of sustainable future -- The Guardian (23 May 2021)
  
  
• Food Waste Could Power the Jet Engines We're Currently Flying With, Scientists Say -- Futurrism (16 March 2021)
  
  
• Bittman, Mark. 2021. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  
  • Listen (50:19): Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything. The Ezra Klein Show (16 March 2021)
    
    
    • Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Mark Bittman -- Ezra Klein (16 March 2021
      
      
• The incredible farms being run from space -- BBCReel (11 March 2021)
  
  
• How to bring life to dying soils -- BBCReel (25 February 2021)
  
  
• Transforming the farm -- BBCReel (25 February 2021)
  
  
• The reason the world is running out of farmers -- BBCReel (11 February 2021)
  
  
• The foods that reverse climate change -- BBCfuture (28 January 2021)
  
  
• Land subsidence 'will affect almost fifth of global population' -- The Guardian (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Living Soil film documents soil health movement
  -- OrbanicBIZ (20 October 2020)
  
  • Living Soil -- Top Documentary Films, Chelsea Wright, Director (60 min. 2018)
    
    
• 4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Food Businesses -- FoodNavigator (06 October 2020)
  
  
• These Entrepreneurs Think Farmville Could Inspire The Future Of Urban Gardening -- Forbes (29 September 2020)
  
  
• How the world’s smelliest fruit could power your phone -- BBCfuture (26 July 2020)
  
  
• The future of food: inside the world's largest urban farm – built on a rooftop -- The Guardian (08 July 2020)
  
  
• Young climate activists call for EU to radically reform farming sector -- The Guardian (22 May 2020)
  
  
• Which foods will survive the apocalypse? -- BBCfuture (31 March 2020)
  
  
• The Future of Food and FarmingUnderstanding What the Next Generation of Farmers and Consumers Want -- Corteva Agriscience (February 2020)
  
  
• Plant-Based Meat Has Roots in the 1970s -- The New York Times (16 February 2020)
  
  
  • Meatless Burgers Are on Trend. Eating to Save the World Has a Long History (video) -- The New York Times (16 February 2020)
    
    
• CES 2020: 'Pork made from plants' launched by Impossible Foods -- BBCNews (07 January 2020)
  
  
• Little, Amanda. The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. NY: Harmony Books, 2019.
  
  
• How climate change could kill the red apple -- BBCfuture (20 November 2019)
  
  
• The vegan revolution: why the latest 'meat' is made entirely from thin air -- The Guardian (13 November 2019)
  
  
• First meat grown in space lab 248 miles from Earth -- The Guardian (07 October 2019)
  
  
• The floating farm for cows – BBCnews (15 August 2019)
  
  
• Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future  – The Guardian (18 August 2019)
  
  
• Yes, algae is green and slimy – but it could also be the future of food – The Guardian (13 August 2019)
  
  
• How the climate crisis will change your plate in 2050 -- The Guardian (01 July 2019)
  
  
• Wise, Timothy A. 2019. Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food. NY: The New Press.
  
  
• Insects tipped to rival sushi as fashionable food of the future -- The Guardian (25 June 2019)
  
  
• Most 'meat' in 2040 will not come from dead animals, says report -- The Guardian (12 June 2019)
  
  
• A Christmas menu dreamed up by a robot -- BBCfuture (18 December 1018)
  
  
• Living Soil -- Top Documentary Films, Chelsea Wright, Director (60 min. 2018)
  
  
• Could AI help to create a meat-free world? -- BBCFuture (15 December 2017)
  
  
• Weekend Reading: Seven Cheap Things -- Marion Nestle, FoodPolitics (20 October 2017)
  
  
• Patel, Raj, and Jason W. Moore. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
  
  
• The perks and downsides of tea and coffee -- BBCfuture (03 October 2017)
  
  
• Will coffee taste worse as the planet warms? -- BBCNews (19 June 2017)
  
  
  • Will we run out of coffee? -- BBCNews (19 June 2017)
    
    
• Future Energy: Will buses be run on coffee? -- BBCNews (15 June 2017)
  
  
• The future of coffee – TOJETO (27 April 2017)
  
  
• Eats and the Future of Real Food -- eats (15 March 2017)
  
  
• How fast food reveals secrets of the economy -- BBCfuture (22 February 2017)
  
  
• Bubble Tea? So 2002. A Sampling of Food-Trend Predictions -- The New York Times (27 December 2016)
  
  
• Big Ag Strikes Back: Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture? -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  • Farmer in Chief -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (09 October 2008)
    
    
• The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture -- George Steinmetz, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  
• What would happen if the world suddenly became vegetarian? -- BBCFuture (30 September 2016)
  
  
• 3D Print Your Own Breakfast -- Smithsonian (09 August 2016)
  
  
• Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide [Des Moines] -- MPRNews (18 October 2016)
  
  
• A healthful legacy: Michelle Obama looks to the future of ‘Let’s Move’ -- The Washington Post (03 May 2016)
  
  
• Increasing Sustainable Food Production Could Empower Cambodian Women -- EurekAlert (01 March 2016)
  
  
• Could ‘resurrection plants’ be the future of food? -- BBC News (21 December 2015)
  
  
• Apocalypse Chow: We tried televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food' -- MPRNews (03 December 2015)
  
  
• In search of the perfect sweetener -- BBCNews (23 November 2015)
  
  
• Mennonite Farmers Prepare to Leave Mexico, and Competition for Water -- The New York Times (16 October 2015)
  
  
• General Mills and other food producers speak out on climate change -- StarTribune (01 October 2015)
  
  
• Africa's Farmers 'Need Urgent Climate-Proof Investment' -- BBC News (25 September 2015)
  
  
• The Future of Food: How to Feed Our Growing Planet -- National Geographic
  
  
• Freedom from food -- Nicola Twilley, Aeon (06 October 2014)
  
  
• Future Climate Change: Agriculture and Food Supply -- Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Green Revolution Meeting Considers Africa's Food Future -- BBC News (01 September 2014)
  
  
• Africa's farmers face 'failed seasons' risks -- BBC News (02 September 2014)
  
  
• The Future of Food [video documentary, 51:43] -- BBC (7 February 2014)
  
  
• The secrets of fake flavours -- BBC (29 August 2014)
  
  
• Power plants to boost our crops -- BBC (25 July 2013)
  
  
• The Future of Food: How to Feed Our Growing Planet -- National Geographic
  
  
• We are not amused: Prince launches scathing attack on food industry -- Nathan Gray, FOODNavigator.com (28 May 2013)
  
  
• Busted: Food Myths Brought to You By Corporate Front Groups -- Food Safety News (24 October 2012)
  
  
• The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food -- A discussion of the landmark book by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, The Aspen Institute (07 March 2012)
  
  
  • The Prince of Wales, HRH. The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food. Rodale, 2012.
    

• Barber, Dan. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. NY: Penguin, 2014.
  
  
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
  
  
• FDA -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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• "Food Factor" -- Apps for Development, World Bank
  
  

  f2f: Extra Credit Film Review video (required for on-line section): From Deborah Koons Garcia . . . The Future of Food (88 min., 2007, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia TP248.65.F66 F88 2004 DVD, DVD 959)  film HomePage  view on-line The Future of Food -- Wikipedia

  
  
  

  f2f: Extra Credit Film Review video (required for on-line section):  HRH Prince Charles on the Future of Food Keynote Speech to The Future of Food Conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC 4 May 2011 view on-line    Rodale Books . . . His Royal Highness Prince Charles's Landmark Speech "On the Future of Food" -- NY (14 February 2012) ISBN-10: 1609614712 ISBN-13: 978-1609614713  Rodale Books, 2012

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• Belasco, Warren. Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
  
  
• The Center for Genomic Gastronomy ["The Center for Genomic Gastronomy Is an artist-led think tank that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems"]
  
  
• Fox, Robin. "Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective," Oxford, UK: Social Issues Research Center, pp. 1-22.
  
  
• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• Gardner, Brian. Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2013.
  
  
• Goodman, Mike, Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey, and Damian Maye. Geographies of food: An Introduction. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2014.
  
  
• Hauter, Wenonah. Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. NY: New Press, 2012.
  
  
• Le, Stephen. 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today. NY: Picador, 2016.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
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• Mann, Charles. “Our Good Earth: The Future Rests on Soil.” National Geographic., September, 2008.
  
  
• Menzel, Peter and Faith D'Aluisio. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insect. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.
  
  
• Newman, Kara. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. Columbia University Press, 2012.
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. "The Food Issue--An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief." The New York Times Magazine. 9 October 2008.
  
  

Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.

• Safina, Carl. Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1997.
  
  
• Wilson, Bee. “The Last Bite: Is the World’s Food System Collapsing?” The New Yorker, May 19, 2008.
  
  
• Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.