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PROJECT GENESIS
Project Genesis exists to explain the reasons WHY we should be thinking about the vital issue of securing the earth’s present and future food supply and HOW to go about doing that by offering realistic and workable solutions.
WHAT IS FOOD SECURITY?
Grow and Save
The willingness and ability of individuals and communities to grow our own food and save our own seeds sustainably, permanently and self sufficiently.
THE POWER OF SEEDS
What potential?
Discover the power of seeds and how 1 pumpkin seed has the potential to feed the world’s population in less than 5 years.
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- The will to grow our own food locally (Do we really want to grow our own food?)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- The human resources (People to grow food)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- The seed resource (Do we have access to self-replicating seed i.e. non-hybrid, non-GM, non-patented)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- The knowledge and ability to be able to grow food (Intellectual property)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- The physical resources to grow food (Seed, land, water, machinery, tools, power, fuel etc)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- Sustainability (Are the methods we use to grow food sustainable?)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- Permanency (Are we looking to pass the food security baton on to the next generation?)
DEFINING FOOD SECURITY
- Self Sufficiency (Are we looking to ourselves to secure our own food security or others to do it for us?)
HISTORY OF GLOBAL AGRICULTURE
View a timeline showing the history and development of global agriculture.