1. Food security
    1. Growing topic of concern
    2. Global food system always change
    3. keep changing for needs tomorrow
  2. Today
    1. food vital everybody
    2. system supported by network of actors
    3. from farm to fork
    4. urban. infra, gov pol, evol cons pref, rising incomes, climate change
    5. all have trigger shifts/disruptions
    6. on how food is grown, handled, distributed
  3. Example
    1. 2050 = 9 billion planet
    2. Middle class = rapid expansion
    3. Billions people out poverty
    4. Mideast and North Africa x2
    5. Sub-Saharan Africa x3
    6. Asia x 600 %
  4. What does this matter?
    1. trem victory but new strains food sys
    2. people more income = change eat
    3. shift staple food to fats, oils, proteins
    4. not feeding + people but feed diff.
    5. need more food 30-70%
  5. Recent past
    1. achieve this feat + production - land
    2. 1960s 3 billion high capacity
    3. develop staple food = corn
  6. Summary
    1. Innovations = important
      1. Chinese Teacher
    2. always adapt to perpetual evol.
      1. Very Important Person
        1. She likes tulip