Introduction

Abstract

A prediction, made at the start of the nineteenth century, that human kind’s ability to sustain itself would, one day, falter, is coming closer to fulfilment. The issue of food security and the consequences of its absence are becoming more pressing. In many parts of the world, insufficient food is grown in some regions to provide adequate nutrition for everyone who lives there, every day. Food is lost to pests before harvest and after harvest. Too much is wasted between the time it leaves the field and lands on a plate. New paradigms are needed, old ones need to be discarded if the consequences of competition (=war) between the haves and the have not’s are to be avoided. This commentary presents and considers solutions.