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Nature 453, 722-723 (5 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453722a; Published online 4 June 2008

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Staving off the global food crisis

C. Peter Timmer1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe End of Food

by Paul Roberts

Houghton Mifflin/Bloomsbury: 2008. 416 pp. $26, £12.99

Sometimes an author gets lucky, or is truly prescient. He can work for years researching a complex and obscure topic, only to see it hit the headlines just as his book is published.