- Published: 12 November 2024
- ISBN: 9780241645406
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $36.99
How to Feed the World
A Factful Guide

















- Published: 12 November 2024
- ISBN: 9780241645406
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $36.99
A compelling, fascinating, and most important, realistic portrait of the world and where it's going
STEVEN PINKER on NUMBERS DON’T LIE
A fact-filled, punchy book . . . Smil's fascination with numbers is infectious
THE TIMES on NUMBERS DON’T LIE
Another masterpiece from one of my favourite authors
BILL GATES on the New York Times bestseller HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS
Very informative and eye-opening in many ways
HA-JOON CHANG, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism on the New York Times bestseller HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS
There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil . . . The nerd's nerd
GUARDIAN
The word "polymath" was invented to describe people like him
BILL GATES
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil
BILL GATES
Smil’s art is that he immerses readers rather than overpowering them, while delivering clear takeaway messages: that we must learn to do more with less, that we ought to be wary of any radical solutions, and that we must accept that any gains will be gradual
Caroline Eden, Financial Times
Concise and erudite . . . How to Feed the World is weighted with statistics, but there is something light and irresistible about the way Smil structures his argument and propels his narrative . . . The breadth of Smil’s knowledge is as impressive as the depth
Talha Burki, Lancet