In a recent Fox News article, Julie Watson discusses the need for a second revolution to solve the issue of the world’s food crisis. Sixty years ago, the green revoltuion began, creating more dependable, “hardier” seeds. Now as the hunger situation worsens, populations is outtrunning and nearly lapping food production. For example, Food production in Africa increases 2 percent a year while population grows 3 percent. Costs of fertilizers have sky rocketed and as global warming becomes more of an issue, climate change is causing drought.
Now the issue doesn’t only involve increasing food production as it did when the original green revolution was introduced. There are many more factors that need to be addressed in order to create the ability to make more food. Many predict another famine within 50 years, so the solution must be sustainable.
Many are attempting to not only aid larger farms, but also small local farms as well. In places like Africa and India, entire towns depend on these small farms and without their successful production, the hunger crisis is fueled.
