Reviews

Kirkus Reviews: “…a grave and timely look at the future of feeding the planet.”

​“The ravages of climate change come into sharp focus in this exhaustive report from the front lines. It is a scientific fact that the planet is warming. But how bad is climate change really? Based on the information in this country-hopping exploration of genetically modified seeds, vast land grabs in developing nations, the biofuel boom, and agribusiness overreach, we are in trouble….”
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Nature, International Journal of  Science: “[I]n Eating Tomorrow, Timothy Wise writes a powerful polemic against agricultural technology that is sold to developing countries as progress towards the common good, but that ends up as a tool of agribusiness oligopoly and profit.” - Felicity Lawrence 
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Booklist: “Wise [sees] hope in the small-plot farmers of the world who are rising in protest. His report will interest readers concerned about human rights and the environment.”
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CounterPunch: “Read Eating Tomorrow…. Tomorrow belongs to the future. This book promises to outrage and inform you to say no to agribusiness. It’s well-written, inspiring, and incisive.”
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Tim Lang, TLS (UK): “Wise’s conclusion is more hopeful than some readers might expect. Social movements are sprouting; small farmers are uniting to proclaim the “right to food”, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.”
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Inter Press Service: “Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution"  - Jomo Kwame Sundaram, prize-winning economist and former official at UN 
Food and Agriculture Organization
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A.C.R.E.S U.S.A: The voice of ecological agriculture: "If you have any interest in how food is produced, distributed and consumed, this book is for you.... You will have a firmer grasp on the realities of the world food system and why it is so resistant to change." 
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ResoluteReader: "Throughout the book, Wise emphasizes the self-organization of those who work the land and their families. As he points out 'the pro-corporate agenda' blinds policy makers and it is social movements that can, and have, transformed the situation."
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Daily Nation (Kenya): "Even though Eating Tomorrow is packed with data, it is accessible, rendered in the traditional journalistic manner that speaks to mass audience. The smallholder African farmer ... as well as anyone interested in the urgent question of the future of food, will find the book intriguing. It will, however, not be music to the ears of the African Green Revolution Forum bosses...."
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Journal of Agriculture and Human Values: “This is a great book for classroom use, as well as being mandatory reading for development professionals and anyone interested in global food systems…. the book showed the alternatives that are emerging from people’s organizations around the globe.”
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Endorsements

“Following the 2008 food crisis, many policy-makers responded to feared scarcity with more chemicals, heavier machinery, longer supply chains. Wise provides a powerful counter-narrative. There is a battle for the future of food, and Eating Tomorrow shifts the frontlines.”
—Olivier De Schutter, Co-Chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

“Eating Tomorrow is a wake-up call about the future of food. Wise describes in detail how agribusiness has transformed agriculture into an extractive industry, destroying the land and farmers.”
—Vandana Shiva, author, Who Really Feeds the World?  and Soil Not Oil

“With his unique journalistic flair, Wise exposes our consuming obsession with corporate agriculture, which is now devouring the resources we all will need if we are to eat tomorrow.”
—Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet

“I recommend Eating Tomorrow to anyone who wants to understand how the industrial food system is destroying our health, biosphere, and food culture and how farmers can feed the world through agro-ecology.”
—Million Belay, Coordinator, African Food Sovereignty Alliance

"Eating Tomorrow is a tour de force on the global struggle for economic, social, and cultural rights, guided by a writer who takes us into corporate boardrooms and farmers' fields to grasp the urgency of the battle for the future of food."
—Salil Shetty, former Secretary General, Amnesty International and currently Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

"Eating Tomorrow reveals how agribusiness has hijacked development and food policies, resulting in a global food system focused on profits—not the health and wellbeing of farmers, the environment, or the people around the world most vulnerable in this time of worsening climate chaos."
—Wenonah Hauter, author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming and executive director of Food & Water Watch.

"Wise’s book rebuts many of the false and exaggerated claims made by agribusiness lobbyists, demonstrating that family farmers can offer safe, healthy, sustainably produced food if they are freed from corporations’ growing stranglehold over food production, distribution, and consumption."
—Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development, 2012-2016

“The right to food has become a rallying cry the world over, from India to Malawi, Mexico to Iowa. In Eating Tomorrow, Wise takes the reader on a global journey to understand how farmers and poor people are struggling to that right.”
—Biraj Patnaik, South Asia Director, Amnesty International, and former Principal Adviser to the Commissioners of the Supreme Court of India in the landmark right to food case

“Wise’s writing is riveting, melding the right mix of historical context, first-person accounts, interactions with key players, and original insight, all related in fast-moving, piquant prose. This is a concentrated dose of perceptive exposition that leaves a reader informed and energized.”
—Ricardo J. Salvador, Director and Senior Scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists