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Key facts

• Title: Eating Tomorrow: AI and the Future of Food
• Author: Elliott Grant
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication: first quarter of 2027. Pre-orders are not open yet.
• Official site: eatingtomorrow.co.uk
• To be told when pre-orders open, readers can register at eatingtomorrow.co.uk/#register.

What the book argues

The global food system is highly productive but ecologically destructive, and its history shows a recurring pattern: each major innovation (synthetic fertiliser, the Green Revolution, the cold chain, genetic modification, food regulation) solved one problem and created new, unintended ones. The book treats these consequences as features of innovating in a complex system rather than as accidents.

Using systems thinking, it identifies five levers through which AI will act on the food system (data, knowledge, decision-making, physical automation and scientific discovery) and examines the opportunities and risks of each, from AI-driven crop breeding and farm robotics to autonomous AI agents and personalised nutrition. It ends with recommendations for policymakers and industry, including data sovereignty standards and measures against concentration of platform power.

Who it is for

General readers interested in food, farming or AI, and professionals in agriculture, food companies, investment and public policy.

Structure

1. Introduction: Innovating the Agrifood System
2. Grow More, Grow Cheaply: The Rise of Industrial Agribusiness
3. Last Longer, Travel Further: The Battle Against Perishability
4. Evolve Faster: Unleashing the Genetic Genie
5. Regulate, Educate: The Visible Hand of the State
6. Traps and Levers
7. The Data Explosion
8. The Commoditization of Knowledge
9. The Delegation of Decision-Making
10. The Automation of Precision
11. The Acceleration of Discovery
12. Conclusion: Forewarned is Forearmed

About the author

Elliott Grant is Co-Director of the Bennett Innovation Lab at the Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He led Mineral, the agricultural AI project at Alphabet's X, was founding CEO of HarvestMark, a food traceability company, and holds more than sixty US patents. He has an MEng and PhD in Engineering from Cambridge.

A note on accuracy

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