Here is part of the response to this question from a world renoun leader in this field of food security, Vandana Shiva. At the Rural Enterprise Center, we take global, regional, national and local issues into account when designing strategies that work for our local minority population and those who may not be minorities but have been left far behind by the economic engine.
It is until very recently that people in the millions have started to fully understand the flaws of the way our economies are organized and how our food and other components of such economy have never really ammounted to much sustainable or intelligent designing. Maybe from a scientific or technical point of view many in academia and big corporations can say yes, but it only works for a very small portion of our population, that is not what can be called an intelligent system, even the very rich know they can’t live in a world where most people are poor or left to fetch for themselves at the blink of an eye of the economic superpowers.
We need new strategies, new ways and new models to measure what we do and how, the time to listen to the unheard voices of reason, that have been pushed aside for generations has come.
Here is a link to a great video by Vandana Shiva, a global leader who understand why it is important that we take the land and rural communities back and re-engage in long lost true food and energy production partnerships with our urban counterparts.