Amanda Little opened #BlogHer19 Food by speaking about her newest book, The Fate Of Food: What We'll Eat In A Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. Introduced by Caity Moseman Wadler, executive director at Heritage Radio Network, Amanda explored how to design #futurefood by discussing topics such as: backyard gardening, how to feed a growing population given complex and overwhelming environmental concerns, increasing food prices for consumers and increasingly limited selection, losing arable land due to higher global temperatures, navigating complex individual human relationships with food, the conversation around the global demand for meat, how much water it takes to grow staple plants, narrowing food supply chain logistics by market, international innovations in water filtration, 3D printed foods, automated machines for pest control, robot fishing, methods for sustainable protein, tapping wisdom from ancient agriculture practices, and overall, how to fix a flawed food system.
Amanda's book, The Fate Of Food, looks at the race to secure the global food supply. Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world’s population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades?
Amanda spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia. The raise to reinvent the global food system is on, and the challenge is twofold: We must solve the existing problems of industrial agriculture while also preparing for the pressures ahead. Through her interviews and adventures with farmers, scientists, activists, and engineers, Little tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. She meets small permaculture farmers and “Big Food” executives, botanists studying ancient superfoods and Kenyan farmers growing the country’s first GMO corn. She travels to places that might seem irrelevant to the future of food yet surprisingly play a critical role—a California sewage plant, a U.S. Army research lab, even the inside of a monsoon cloud above Mumbai. Little asks tough questions: Can GMOs actually be good for the environment—and for us? Are we facing the end of animal meat? What will it take to eliminate harmful chemicals from farming? How can a clean, climate-resilient food supply become accessible to all?
Throughout her journey, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity.
Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. Her reporting on energy, technology and the environment has taken her to ultra-deep oil rigs, down manholes, and inside monsoon clouds. Amanda's work has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times and Washington Post to Wired, Rolling Stone, and Bloomberg Businessweek. She writes, bikes, and is learning to cook and tango in Nashville, TN, where she lives with her husband and kids.
Caity Moseman Wadler is the Executive Director of Heritage Radio Network, a nonprofit food radio station and podcast network based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. There, she oversees 35 weekly shows and special programs on topics including agriculture, beverages, dining, and culture. Caity holds an M.A. in Food Studies from New York University and a B.A. in Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry from Middlebury College. She received the Julia Child Foundation Food Writing Fellowship at Heritage Radio Network in 2015 and was recognized as one of the New York City Food Policy Center's 40 Under 40 in 2018. Prior to her graduate studies, Caity worked in antibody engineering at Adimab, a New Hampshire-based biotech startup. She lives in NYC with her husband and their silver lab, Louie.
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