C. Peter Timmer of Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University reviews, “One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?” by Gordon Conway. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores issues critical to the global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security and considers whether it is possible to end endemic global hunger. Discusses acute and chronic crises; what hunger is; the green revolution; the political economy of food security; a doubly green revolution; sustainable intensification; appropriate technology; creating markets; designer crops; the livestock revolution; farmers as innovators; controlling pests; rooted in the soil; sustained by water; adapting to climate change; reducing greenhouse gases; and whether we can feed the world. Conway is Professor of International Development at Imperial College, London.”