How we can feed ourselves without destroying the planet or our health | Henry Dimbelby

The global food system is both a miracle and a disaster. Thanks to the technical advances of the Green Revolution, it now provides almost twice as many calories per head – albeit unevenly distributed – for 8 billion people than it did for 2.8 billion people in the late 1940s, grown on a slightly smaller area of land. But this triumph of human ingenuity has done so much damage to the environment that the food system is now threatening to destroy itself. It is by far the biggest global cause of biodiversity loss, deforestation, soil erosion, freshwater shortage and pollution, and the collapse of aquatic life. And it is also the largest cause of avoidable ill health, destroying our productivity and threatening to overwhelm the health service. Henry Dimbleby will set out why this is happening and what we can do to avert disaster.

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