Richard J. Sexton is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, Davis. He is founder and coeditor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, a University of California magazine devoted to contemporary food and environmental issues. He has published extensively in leading economics and agricultural journals.

• Contents  PrefaceAcknowledgments  1. Setting the Table: Threats to Food Production amid Rising Demand  Part One. Demand for Agricultural Products in the Twenty-First Century2. Population and Income Growth and Food Demand in the Twenty-First Century3. Biofuels: They Once Seemed Like a Good Idea4. What Will We Eat, and Why Does It Matter?  Part Two. Food Supply and the Challenges to Expanding It5. Agricultural Productivity Growth: Will It Save Us from Higher Food Prices and Greater Hunger?6. Producing Food in the Right Places and with the Right Inputs Matters a Lot7. Climate Change and Pest Resistance Threaten Food Production8. Foods That Come with Claims and Policies That Support Them9. Organic Foods: Producing Less with More10. Genetic Engineering and Gene Editing: Putting the Brakes on Essential Innovations11. Small Farms: Poor Farms and Poor People12. Local Foods: Shortchanged by Short Supply Chains13. Animal Welfare: Good Intentions but Bad Outcomes?14. Food Manufacturers and Retailers: Villains or Heroes?  Part Three. Good, Bad, and Useless Policies to Increase Food Availability15. Waste Not, Want Not?16. Meatless Mondays . . . and Tuesdays and Wednesdays . . . ?17. Climate-Smart Agriculture: Hope versus Reality18. Policies and Strategies to Sustainably Expand Food Production  NotesRecommended ReadingsIndex

"Food Fight shows how well-meaning regulations, climate pressures, and corporate interests collide, leaving communities vulnerable and hungry. Sexton brings together analysis and human stories and poses a reminder that behind every statistic is a person trying to feed themselves."