One suggestion for combating future global food crises is to launch a new Green Revolution. The first Green Revolution took place in the mid-20th Century, and was a campaign that encouraged farmers, particularly in the developing world, to increase the success of their crops by using better seeds and farming methods. The Green Revolution succeeded as food availability increased, keeping pace with a growing global population.
The article in Great Decisions 2009 on the Global Food Crisis discusses how the next Green Revolution would also need to increase global food supply, but would have to be “…more sustainable…more resiliant and elastic…and it must be more equitable.” Recently, the Asia Society and Oxfam America had convened a program on the Global Food Crisis to look at the “…causes, remedies and debates that swirl around the controversial subject of global food security.”
Watch video of the debate, “A Second ‘Green Revolution.'”
