Conversation with Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Glenn Denning, a world-leading specialist in agricultural and food policy to discuss Denning’s new book Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet. Together, they explore how we can achieve a food-secure world while protecting the planet through sustainable agricultural technologies, farm practices, and healthy diets.
Their discussion ranges broadly over the choices of agricultural technology, food policy, dietary choices, and public institutions needed to achieve global food security with environmental sustainability. Denning shares his wealth of personal experiences as an agricultural policy advisor in many parts of the world, and vividly describes pivotal achievements in food policy. He describes vividly how our complex food challenges can be systematically addressed and solved.
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[@vivalaleta]

Regenerative agriculture is nothing but win! Thanks for this interview.

[@vivalaleta]

"Two soil regeneration strategies are facing off: one has been called Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), the other Regenerative Agriculture (RA), which is also commonly referenced as Agroecology. This policy brief aims to define and analyze these two paradigms, which largely contradict each other, even though they share a pool of strategies and terminologies." - Anne-Marie Codur and Josephine Watson

[@vivalaleta]

So science can create a bigger wheat plant with valuable attributes...what is the inherent nutrition value? Not only that but growing that plant regeneratively or with standard practices such as plowing and using chemical imputes will make a huge difference in the nutrition levels.

[@vivalaleta]

How is the issue complicated? Regenerative practices can be used anywhere; no soil is too bad, no climate too dry.

[@BobQuigley]

8 billion precious humans today and every year another 80 million net new precious humans join us. That's 2X population of Canada every year. At birth each makes a 30,000 day claim on 2,000 calories of food. Each requires fossil fuels their entire lives. We would not be at 8 billion without fertilizer from fossil gas. Yet we're burning through 100 billion barrels of oil equivalent flammable fossil energy annually. Using the precious gas molecules for transportation and electricity where there's good alternatives. Flammable fossils are a one time gift of sun earth system that required tens of millions of years for the earth to cook. There is no Fossil Fuels Fairy refilling the holes.

[@BobQuigley]

Mr Sachs please consider interviewing Nate Hagens the producer of the KZbin Great Simplification channel

[@vivalaleta]

@@BobQuigley Your comment doesn't belong under mine and has little to do with food security.

[@vivalaleta]

@@BobQuigley THANK YOU for clueing me in about this speaker. I am subscribed.

[@vivalaleta]

Nutrition value is largely IN THE SOIL. Just take a look at the difference of the egg from a truly free range chickens and an egg from a caged chicken - they look different, they taste different and they have different levels of nutrition.

[@vivalaleta]

Context matters but regenerative practices heal the land and make the farmer money. I may sound like a kook but look up Gabe Brown, gentlemen.

[@MD-gw9kj]

Why does it feel absurd to believe there could, or should be a ‘universal’ approach to regional food production and distribution? The goal here appears to confront the same problems of oppression of peoples by of imposing a universal World Health Organization ‘system’ or one world government?

[@vivalaleta]

"We could have won the war in Vietnam"? Really?? Professor, this is all in support of a top/down system that will figure things out for farmers instead of putting the fix squarely within the farmers' hands.