Paul Roberts (ed). The End of Food. New York: Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bosten. 2009. xv+330 pages. (Price not given).

The modern food economy has evolved over time. The caloriedense food (meat) has taken the place of plants and a technologicallydriven agriculture system has replaced the traditional food system.Several factors such as industrial revolution, opening of trade, end ofcommunism, female market participation and technological change havecontributed in shaping the rules of modern food production system. Theendless efforts of the scientists geared towards discoveries has led toa green revolution in the field of agriculture and have done enough tountrue the earlier predictions of mass famine by Thomas Malthus.However, all such man made progress has not done much to resolvechallenges of food security, food economy liberalisation and food safetybeing faced by every country today. This book presents well researchedanswers to questions raised at every forum on global food security suchas; how did the primitive food system evolve into its present shape,what has motivated less spending on food, what has promoted the idea ofconvenience food in retail business, what has led to technology drivenrevolution in agriculture output, what radical steps are needed toescape from evils of hunger and malnutrition in the present world, whatprovokes food producers in developed countries to rule out unfetteredfunctioning of food trade, and finally what turns around the progressthat has ever been made in agriculture.