The global food system is vast and complex, but how secure is it? Dr. Rosamond Naylor, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, explores the food system starting with civilization’s domestication of grains from hybrid crossing to modern genetic modification techniques, considering the trade-offs inherent in feeding the world’s growing population. Dr. Naylor explores possible solutions to the vexing problems of climate change, resource depletion, population growth, changing diets, poverty, and conflict.

Chapters (navigate to in the progress bar or at the lower-right corner of the video):
1. Beginning (00:19)
2. Overview of the global food system (01:15)
3. Four food system pillars (availability, access, utilization, stability) (02:10)
4. Seeds and the Green Revolution (03:47)
5. Malnutrition & micronutrients (05:45)
6. Nutrition security, empty calories (07:45)
7. Resources, environment, and climate change (08:12)
8. Change in growing season, prevalence of pests & pathogens; (09:50)
9. Genetic modification (12:11)
10. Crop loss to pests, control of pests, pest crop resistance (14:22)
11. Bacillus thuringiensis, no till framing, and farm management (19:35)
12. Mark Lynas's book on GMO science (22:55)
13. CRISPR (25:25)
14. Food systems in West Africa, PV water pumping for irrigation, improved yields and variety of crops (26:55)
15. Terrestrial and aquatic animal protein innovation (33:50)
16. Solution pathways, systems integration, technology transfer, diversity and cultural preference (38:20)
17. Human populations, rural communities, reproductive health (42:50)
18. End (46:59)