By 2050, we will need 56 percent more food to feed 10 billion people, according to the World Resources Institute. But our global food system is challenged by climate change. How can we create a sustainable food system without using more land?
Florence Reed works with farmers in Central America to restore degraded farmland and introduce regenerative farming practices. She is the founder of Sustainable Harvest International.
"It just breaks my heart to see humans just through lack of knowledge of a better way, choosing to use death as a way to grow our food, rather than using all of the abundance of life that can work together to produce an abundance of healthy food for us," Reed said in an interview with Full Frame host Mike Walter.
Sustainable Harvest International's farming practices are rooted in building up soil health and promoting biodiversity. From using compost and avoiding toxic chemicals, to growing different kinds of crops, Reed said the results are encouraging.
Currently, she said, "The world spends a tremendous amount on subsidizing agriculture that fuels climate change."
"If all 500 million of those smallholder farmers around the world made this transition, they could get us 53% of the way to the United Nations goal for greenhouse gas reductions," she said.
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