“A thrilling and provocative survey of inventions, innovations, and wild flights of imagination aimed at feeding more people while using less land…People who would rather solve problems than posture over them, people who understand that popularity is no measure of truth, will find in this book a bracing, beautiful picture of what’s possible—and a sobering look at the difficulty of change.”
—The Washington Post

“We Are Eating the Earth is a savory, science-salted meal of provocative thinking about food. Grunwald investigates what we eat, how we grow it, and why getting better at it is key to addressing the climate crisis. It’s a wildly ambitious undertaking, but Grunwald pulls it off because he’s fearless and funny and knows his stuff. If you want to save the planet, read We Are Eating the Earth.” 
—Jeff Goodell, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First
 
“Michael Grunwald never follows the crowd. Instead, he digs deep and finds actual, uncomfortable, and, yes, correct answers. We Are Eating the Earth tackles the complexity of our food and climate problems with captivating storytelling, and no agenda but our survival. Knowledge is about to be dropped. Pay attention.”
—Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The JFK Conspiracy
 
“The quest to feed humanity’s voracious appetites is consuming ever more land around the world. We Are Eating the Earth is an indispensable guide to the thorniest problem in global economics and environmental policy—an issue that most advocates ignore, but that we urgently need to face if we want to have any hope of solving it."
—Matthew Yglesias, author of One Billion Americans
 
“Food is now as big a climate challenge as oil, and We Are Eating the Earth is the most vivid and inspiring reckoning with this wicked problem written in this age of climate crisis.”
—David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth

"Grunwald does the important work of translating the legal, scientific, and often esoteric aspects of the issue into immediate action. Ambitious in scope, the book provides a roadmap of environmental policy relating to agricultural land in the past few decades and the emergency we’re now facing. An accessible and alarming look at the planet’s land crisis."
—Kirkus Review

“In this bracing report, journalist Grunwald…offers a myth-busting overview of current debates around how to improve the world’s agricultural systems. This provides much food for thought.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Engaging, informative, witty, convincing, and ultimately sobering offering… While the content is disturbing, Grunwald's delivery helps gets his message across: the need for land-use reform, immediately.”
—Booklist

"Grunwald’s book is informative, highly readable, and often funny.”
—Bloomberg

"A lively, reportorial world tour through the misunderstood science and politics of agriculture…intelligent, highly timely…We Are Eating the Earth is, to a great extent, a work of unsentimental pragmatism, which makes the spirited case for principled idealism in the book’s final moments all the more potent."
—Vox

"The most important book of the decade, if not the century.” 
—Climate & Cuisine podcast