Food will decide the human future

Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to conflict. In his new book “Food or War” Australian author Julian Cribb calls for a new food system capable of meeting global needs on our increasingly hot and overcrowded planet.

Strike at the heart of our food security

Australia has enough water for all its food and export needs, to protect and sustain its native landscapes and to embark on new industries in aquaculture, algae culture and irrigation potentially worth $30-40 billion – but to do that, it needs good science, technology and education, argues Julian Cribb.

If Australia’s security agencies got wind of a terrorist plot to destroy vital national infrastructure, eliminate companies and thousands of jobs, cost the Australian public billions of dollars and undermine the health of the community, our governments would – presumably – mobilise all our national resources and defence forces to prevent it.

The trouble is the perpetrators in this scenario are Australian governments themselves – federal and state and of both political complexions.  And the scenario is real.
 

The tragedy of world farm clearances

When farmers around the world are forced off their land for political, economic or social reasons it has a wider impact than just a loss of food production. Julian Cribb believes it is one of the greatest injustices in the history of civilisation.