Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’

“Essentially, what we are dealing with at the moment is a food system that was laid down in the 1940s,” he told BBC News.

It followed on from the dust bowl in the US, the collapse of food production in Europe and starvation in Asia.

clipped from www.enn.com Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’ By Mark Kinver  Science and environment reporter, BBC News A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of “new fundamentals”, according to a leading food expert. Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing “structural failures”, such as “astronomic” environmental costs. The new approach needed to address key fundamentals like biodiversity , energy, water and urbanisation, he added.