Revolutionizing the Way We Grow Food Discussion Paper

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1 Watch the video Revolutionizing the Way We Grow Food.

Note Caleb Harper’s solutions for growing enough food to feed the world’s increasing population.

In at least a well-written paragraph, evaluate the feasibility of Mr. Harper’s solutions.

2 Read A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World by National Geographic.

Write pro or con response to the five-step plan for feeding a world of 9 billion people. Convince me you read it!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/

3 Create a Future Wheel

Using the information from Consequence Wheel/Future Wheel reference, construct a future wheel. It is important to remember that this forecasting technique follows an “if, then” format. “If” this event occurs, “then” this is the result. For example, “if” the population reaches 9 billion by 2050, “then” food shortages will occur. OR, “if” new food production technologies are invented, “then” food shortages will be alleviated. It is possible that both scenarios are included in one future wheel as a result of brainstorming consequences.
The topic/issue is “9 Billion Mouths to Feed in 2050” for the center of your future wheels.
Draw your future wheel (or use Google Draw). Make sure it is legible!
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/futures-wheel.htm

Agroecology: Revolutionizing the Way We Grow Food

Agriculture is often at the center of debates, research and protests when it comes to environmental activism. On those stages agriculture is often cast as the “bad guy.” And for good reason. The list of offenses is egregious: pollutant run-off into streams, significant deforestation to make room for endless fields of soybeans, fossil fuels emitted into the atmosphere contributing to climate change and pesticides ingested by farmworkers and consumers. I could go on! Even under the label of organic, industrial agriculture comes under fire for the use of heavy machines, intensive irrigation and weed control, which arguably leads to soil erosion especially when monocrops are involved.

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There’s a quiet revolution under way by peasants and farmers worldwide that will resonate with many of us. Photo credit: WhyHunger
But there’s a quiet revolution under way by peasants and farmers worldwide that will resonate with many of us—consumers and advocates for a more sustainable food system as well as environmental activists. It’s called agroecology and it has the potential to get loud.

Agroecology is a science and practice defined in the daily lives of millions worldwide. It represents both a form of agricultural production and a process for organizing and building community self-determination. Not to be confused with sustainable agriculture, regenerative agriculture or other environmentally-friendly farming practices, agroecology is a way of life and a pathway to end hunger, protect our natural environment and transform society. It’s farming, feeding, restoring, preserving, protecting and democratizing, grounded in the accumulated (and still accumulating knowledge) of those relying on nature’s resources to nourish their families and communities. And it begins with an intuitive understanding that ecology is about the interdependent relationships of natural organisms—including humans—to their local environment. Key to an agroecological approach is not just the production of food, but the production of knowledge.

Key to an agroecological approach is not just the production of food, but the production of knowledge. Photo credit: WhyHunger
But don’t take my word for it. Listen to the voices of the practitioners of agroecology—the peasants, mainly women, who are leading the way in engaging their communities, as Janaina Stronzake from Brazil, says, “Always with participatory and local decisions about what, how and when to produce. Every place in the world must build its own agroecology.”

WhyHunger’s new publication Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action is not a technical guide or a “how to” manual on production practices. Rather it shares the perspectives of members of rural communities around the world that are fomenting a quiet revolution from the soil to the community on behalf of Mother Earth.