The Future of the Global Food System
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Wired has an interesting dispatch from the AAAS Annual Meeting on the future of the global food system. The annual meeting, that took place last weekend in Boston, featured a speech by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a professor of food at Cornell, who argues that the global food system is broken and needs to be fixed. How? He has some ideas about how to make our food system more sustainable and more efficient.
But first, what are we up against? "There are 850 million food insecure people, and several hundred million obese people. Clearly the system is broken." Further, the global implications of climate change on our food system are immense: "Climate change will affect primarily low-income farmers in the tropics and sub-tropics. 70% of the world's poor people are in rural regions in those geographies." And, he argues, the locavore/100 Mile Diet trend that's so in vogue right now ain't gonna cut it. (more)
via:treehugger
