FP This Week: Solutions to the food crisis

Plus, Ones and Tooze live from New York. [Foreign Policy This Week]( October 10, 2022 | [View in browser]( To access all the benefits of an FP subscription, [sign in]( or [subscribe](. Thanks for reading. We can feed the world. That’s the message we want to send with the [latest issue]( of Foreign Policy magazine: a collection of practical ideas for getting smarter about food production, making supply chains more efficient, and wasting less. Here are some of the solutions we spotlight: - Sarah Taber [argues]( that the status quo has to change. Industrialized agriculture, Taber writes, actually benefits only a select few. Instead, we must invest in fisheries and forests and, crucially, treat food policy as a public utility rather than as a corporate endeavor. - One way to produce more food would be to [improve access to fertilizer]( according to Saloni Shah. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa use only 20 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare of land—less than 15 percent of the global average. As a result, those countries produce fewer crops and are forced to spend money on expensive imports. - Ancient grains such as millet are nutrient-rich, need less water, and are more resistant to pests. Dan Saladino [traveled to Nongtraw]( in northeastern India to discover how one community is pioneering its return and transforming their diet in the process. - Why is the Impossible Burger more expensive than a regular beef burger? Nigel Purvis and Bruce Friedrich [make the case]( for targeted tax credits and subsidies to attract investment in plant-based proteins. After all, it worked for renewable energy. - Alicia Kennedy reports from Puerto Rico on how local entrepreneurs are betting [big on mushrooms]( to achieve food sovereignty in a part of the world already hit hard by climate change. Plus, Bronwen Everill asks: Whatever happened to those [histories of a single food]( that were so popular at the turn of the millennium? And don’t miss FP’s own Jennifer Williams [reviewing]( Gerry Adams’s little-known foray into cookbook writing. Yes, that Gerry Adams.—Ravi Agrawal, FP editor-in-chief P.S. For more on solving the food crisis, join FP’s executive editor, Amelia Lester, and Sarah Taber, along with the World Food Program’s chief economist, Arif Husain, for a [live discussion]( tomorrow, October 11, at 1 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------- New and Noteworthy - Europe’s Energy Crisis: Winter is coming, and Europe is facing an energy crisis that people are calling “generational.” Gas prices are now eight times what they were on average over the past 10 years and eight times more expensive than in the United States. On the latest episode of [Ones and Tooze]( Adam and Cameron discuss how bad it could get and why next year could be even worse. 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