The answer to that question is a definite NO.

The easiest way to look at this is that a FOOD PRODUCTION model is only concerned with one question – do we have food for today? And the main focus is on PROFITS.

A FOOD SECURITY model addresses two questions – a) do we have food today? and b)  will we have food tomorrow? And the main focus with this model is PEOPLE.

At the start of this Project Genesis website I gave a detailed description of what is true Food Security. You will note that some of the foundational principles for food security are issues like sustainability, self-sufficiency, knowledge, human justice as well as the seed resource availability. Food production does not concern itself primarily with those types of concepts – as long as food is being produced today and the global food machine is profitable, then that is simply the main focus.

That’s not to say farmers and the corporate world in general don’t care about food security. I have no doubt the vast majority of those people working in the global food industry are very concerned indeed with food security. They have to eat like the rest of us. They also have families to feed. We all have a vested global interest in food security issues.

With the current direction that global agriculture is taking towards an industrialised model, they are ever increasingly having their hands tied behind their collective backs making them very limited in what they can do about the situation that is unfolding. The old traditional version of farming is rapidly becoming extinct and along with that so also is our ability to be food secure.

Agriculture is the world’s biggest business and like all other types of business – there’s ever increasing pressure from the owners and shareholders to produce increasing profits. Food security is not their reason for growth and expansion – I would be amazed if food security was even recognised as a serious issue, let alone discussed in any of the corporate boardrooms. As long as those profit projections are on the increase – everyone is happy.

This leaves us with the obvious question of WHO is going to make sure the world will have FOOD SECURITY tomorrow and into the future?