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One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? by Gordon Conway

In One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World, Gordon Conway describes the major issues we face in the quest to reach food security. Beyond the challenges, the author provides a series of evidence-based proposals that could contribute to an agenda to solve this seemingly intractable problem. He does a superb job of intertwining emerging technologies with agroecological methods as the most feasible way of achieving sustainable agricultural intensification. The book’s focus is on food production, but describes equally important and interdependent goals such as improved stability, increased resilience, greater equitability, and sustainability. These are guiding themes for Conway’s proposed “Doubly Green Revolution” (61). Three challenges are emphasized: 1) the upward trend of food price spikes; 2) the persistence of a billion or more hungry; and 3) the growing global population that will intensify the first two. The author outlines both acute and chronic problems, defining and contextualizing the faces of hunger, recounting historical successes and failures of the original Green Revolution, and emphasizing how the political economy impacts global food security. Conway first establishes the interconnectedness of the developed and developing world on global, regional, and local levels of food security, and the causes of the 2007–2008 food price spike and other far-reaching events. He cites eight contemporary factors that we must understand and confront: