Food, Energy and Values: Reflections on the Global Food Issue_Crimson Publishers

 

Food, Energy and Values: Reflections on the Global Food Issue by Walter Leimgruber* in Modern Concepts & Developments in Agronomy

The problem of food supply has been the object of discussions since Malthus. Usually, the roots of and the solutions to this problem are exclusively sought in environmental and technical fields: harvest failures, inadequate food distribution, food prices etc. in other words, quantitative arguments dominate the debate. While these factors doubtlessly play an important role, they are not the only reasons for the fact that about one billion people on our Planet suffer from hunger and/or malnutrition. This paper reflects on the superficial and on the deeper reasons for the food problem. It argues that we are confronted with a complex situation that is linked to the close relationship between environmental and societal problems.
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