In the introductory abstract to ‘Vision Infinity for Food Security,’ (Sharma and Wightman 2015), co-author Dr Shashi Sharma draws our attention to the 1798 prediction by Thomas Malthus that human kind’s ability to feed itself was limited by population size. Malthus foresaw a time when human numbers would exhaust the capacity of planetary food producing resources with catastrophic consequences.

After all, a secure food supply is essential for species survival. Food security can be defined as ensuring that all people, at all times, have both physical and economic access to the basic food that they need or, put more simply, for each individual to have sufficient food, each day, to provide the nutrients and energy to maintain a healthy and active life.

The book calls for a fundamental and philosophical re-thinking and re-structuring of our food production, distribution and consumption.

FDI has taken the opportunity to interview Professor Sharma about his book and his vision for a world perpetually free from food insecurity; that is, food security for all forever.