Sustainable food is the F in sustainably FED, the production, distribution and access for food is grown to supply the human population with 22 trillion kilocalories daily. A miraculous achievement, but can we keep it...
Producing enough nutritious food
Global food production is huge. It delivers to humanity over 23 trillion calories (kcal) each and every day even when a third of the production goes to waste. But not everyone gets enough nutrition from this six-continent food supply chain and few are aware of the complexity and vulnerability. The challenge is how to keep these fragile systems going as demand grows and supply is increasingly constrained. Sustainable food is the sustainably FED theme that explores the details of this mega challenge when unlimited growth is not an option.
Check out our pillar post ‘what is sustainable food’ for the basics and dip into dozens more posts to understand the many nuances of food production.
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The shocking truth about future global food demand
Meeting future global food demand requires and increase in agricultural production to 2050 and we don’t even know by how much.
Aquaculture for fish consumption | The shocking truth about Friday’s fish
Demand and the nutritional benefits of fish have produced a phenomenal rise in aquaculture for fish consumption. Is fish farming the answer to sustainable seafood?
5 megatrends in the food sector | Impacts of a less predictable planet, health awareness, and more
The world has become unpredictable and left us all grasping for something to latch on to. Do megatrends in the food sector offer some hope?
Urban Growth May Not Happen As Imagined
If the trend of the last 100 years continues, by 2050, three, out of four people will live in urban areas. This urban growth might not be a good thing.
Comment | The graph that explains so much
Historians and anyone with half an eye on the past know that the world changed when abundant coal made industrial energy cheap, then natural gas for lighting, and again when oil replaced coal as the primary energy for...
Why service crops are an intelligent investment
Farming was a circular family affair before the arrival of big agriculture with its input heavy production of mostly monoculture crops on fields the size of suburbs. And before that, everyone was close to nature. Will...
We eat and drink fossil fuels | How energy subsidy shapes modern agriculture
Do you know what happens on farms to grow the vast quantities of food needed to feed everyone? No? Start with a massive use of energy.
Why we love soil carbon
We know that soil carbon is essential for food production from sifting through the science and from our practical experience working with soils from Nairobi to Narrabri. Here is a summary of that logic.
Energy-blind food supply and the agriculture energy sink
Agriculture came about because it generated an energy surplus, but today we have an agriculture energy sink.
Turning soil into agriculture factories
Through energy and inputs, the soil becomes the agriculture factories that feed half the global population. But there are problems with the analogy.
