Food Planet Future

FOREWORD, Thor Hanson PREFACE, Robert Dash INTRODUCTION, Robert Dash ANATOMY OF A MONTAGE PERILS AND PROMISE AGAVE Desert Agroforestry and Carbon Capture AGAVE 2.0 The Billion Agave Project ASPARAGUS Perennial Vegetables AVOCADO New Cultivar, and Searching for Sustainable Fruit AZOLLA A Floating Fern That Once Removed Half of All Atmospheric Carbon AZOLLA 2.0 High Protein, Affordable Livestock Feed BAMBOO The Plant With Countless Uses BEAN “Poor Man’s Protein”, Climate Friendly Food BEAN 2.0 New Seed Bank With 38,000 Bean Types BIOCHAR Ancient Practices Build Microbial Hotels in Soil BLUEBERRY Crop Waste Products and a Circular Economy BUCKWHEAT Restoring Food Security in Remote Villages BUMBLE BEE Indispensable Pollinators With Mushroom Friends CACAO Intercropping With Other Species CACAO 2.0 Reclaiming Degraded Lands CATTLE The Great Meat Debate CATTLE 2.0 Carbon Capture and the Practice of Silvopasture CELERY Strategies to End Food Waste CHESTNUT Return From Oblivion CHIA Healthy Seeds and Plant Chemistry Treasures CHIA 2.0 Levity Is Its Own Kind of Nutrient COCONUT Making Use of Crop Waste CORN and Crop Wild Relatives COVER CROPS Fava Beans, Green Manure, and Soy Alternatives COVER CROPS 2.0 Keep Soil Covered, Keep Roots in the Ground CRICKET AND PEA PROTEIN Climate Benefits of Vegetable and Insect Protein FLAX Plants That Feed and Clothe Us FOREST GARDENS Borage and Multi-Layered Gardens FOREST GARDENS 2.0 Senegalese Forest Gardens Reclaim Desert Lands GINKGO STOMATA Climate Stories on a Geologic Scale HAZELNUTS and Agroforestry HAZELNUTS 2.0 Perennial Woody Crops Versus Annuals HEMP Plant Protein HEMP 2.0 Fast-Growing Building Insulation HOPS Climate Stress, Beer, Biotech INDIGENOUS FOODS Camas Lily: A Hidden Treasure INDIGENOUS FOODS 2.0 Cultural Burning Practices JAPANESE KNOTWEED and Invasive Species JAPANESE KNOTWEED 2.0 Invasive Species as Climate Assets KALE The Mixed Climate Record of Organics KELP Restoring Great Undersea Forests KELP 2.0 Nutritional and Climate Benefits of Kelp Farms KIWIFRUIT Green, Gold, and Contested LACE LICHEN Medicinal Uses, Air Quality Indicator LAVENDER Perennial Benefits LETTUCE Breeding Resilient Varieties LETTUCE 2.0 Microgreens and Hyperlocal, Nutrient-Dense Vegetables MILLET Ancient, Drought-Tolerant Food MILLET 2.0 Keeping Village Food Traditions Alive MUSHROOM MYCELIUM Extraordinary From Every Angle OLIVE Crop Migrations Prompted by Climate Stress PLANKTON Tiny Plants That Produce Half The World’s Oxygen PLANKTON 2.0 Dust, Diatoms, and Carbon Capture POLLINATORS Insect Population Challenges and Biomimicry Innovations POTATO Crop Wild Relatives Increase Resilience in Peru POTATO 2.0 A Long Tradition of Potato Guardians QUINOA Ancient Foods in a Modern World QUINOA 2.0 Bringing Healthy Foods to the Wide World RICE An Unexpected Methane Factory RICE 2.0 Threatened by Salt, but Options Exist ROCK DUST and Carbon Capture ROCK DUST 2.0 Turning Mining Waste Into Locked-Up Carbon ROOT CROPS Carrots and Crop Wild Relatives ROOT CROPS 2.0 Agrivoltaic Solar Gardens SALICORNIA The Promise of Saltwater Agriculture SALMON Alternatives to Destructive Aquaculture SALMON 2.0 Dam Removal and River Rewilding SOIL The Keys to the Kingdom SOIL 2.0 Decay is a Steamy Affair SOY BEAN Powerful Laws Help To Reduce Soy-Related Deforestation SOY BEAN 2.0 Prairie Strips, Water Retention, and Reducing Dead Zones SUNFLOWER Crop Wild Relatives and Perennial Wannabes TOMATOES and Their Crop Wild Relatives TOMATOES 2.0 570 Million Smallholders Grow 30% of Our Food TREES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES The Promise of Tree Vegetables TREES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES 2.0 Moringa’s Multivitamins Grow on Trees TURKEY TAIL MUSHROOM Immune Support and Reduced Wildfire Threats WHEAT and Other Crops Move Towards the Poles WHEAT 2.0 Kernza®, and the Dream of Perennial Grains ARTIST’S PROCESS BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHOR