Editorial note: The following article, submitted April 5, 2011, was originally entered as a “comment” to our post: Upcoming Food Shortages: Why and How to Prepare, Apr 2, 2011.
Got Food?
by Robert Seymour
“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find…
You get what you need” (1)
At a time when per capita global food production and national food self sufficiency ratios are shrinking, a hungry world is set to grow by another 1.6 billion people in the next fifteen years. This is like adding another China to the world population. China has now replaced Japan as the second largest economy and has become the number one importer of oil after the United States. As economic pressure on already scarce natural resources intensifies, the availability of locally grown food will be worth its weight in gold. (more…)
