Food Security

The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard

Video Mark Baker on Solving America's Food Crisis

Video: Wheat Replacement From 1750 - Food Shortage - Barley Cakes

We have a very limited variety of crops at our disposal in the main marketplace. See "Plants & Climate Change" regarding how crops are responding to such issues as drought. Of the 70 staple crops that we could eat, we only go after four of them. We're missing out by pushing ourselves down a narrow channel and opened ourselves up to a "poison chalice", there's a need for food, but its contaminated largely by fungal mycotoxins. (see mycotoxins).

The World’s Food Supply Is at Risk: Modern Agriculture Is Destroying the Soil Beneath Our Feet

Using a resilience theory approach could help reveal practical solutions and clarify their potential trade-offs. New research warns that modern agricultural methods are placing the global food supply at increasing risk by weakening the natural resilience of the world’s soils. Soil resilience refers to the capacity of soil to resist, adapt to, and recover from [...]