The UN, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation and European Commission have recently all cited tackling our unsustainable western diets and wastage in the food system as central to achieving food security. This new focus marks a welcome departure from the "produce more of the same" paradigm that has dominated the worldwide food security debate until now.
We are now rightly concentrating on fixing the problems with our current food system that, if not addressed, will prevent us from feeding the world's population well regardless of how much food we produce. The new food security mood music goes like this: less waste, less meat, more food.