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Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe

David Denkenberger and Joshua Pearce, Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe , Academic Press, San Diego (2015).
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The book Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production.

Mass human starvation is currently likely if global agricultural production is dramatically reduced for several years following a global catastrophe: e.g. super volcanic eruption, asteroid or comet impact, nuclear winter, abrupt climate change, super weed, super crop pathogen, super bacterium, or super crop pest. Even worse, such a catastrophe may cause the collapse of civilization, and recovery is not guaranteed. Therefore, this could affect many future generations.

The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are solutions.

This book provides an order of magnitude technical analysis comparing caloric requirements of all humans for five years with conversion of existing vegetation and fossil fuels to edible food. It presents mechanisms for global-scale conversion including: natural gas-digesting bacteria, extracting food from leaves, and conversion of fiber by enzymes, mushroom or bacteria growth, or a two-step process involving partial decomposition of fiber by fungi and/or bacteria and feeding them to animals such as beetles, ruminants (cows, deer, etc), rats and chickens. It includes an analysis to determine the ramp rates for each option and the results show that careful planning and global cooperation could ensure the bulk of humanity and biodiversity could be maintained in even in the most extreme circumstances.

Key Features

Summarizes the severity and probabilities of global catastrophe scenarios, which could lead to a complete loss of agricultural production
More than 10 detailed mechanisms for global-scale solutions to the food crisis and their evaluation to test their viability
Detailed roadmap for future R&D for human survival after global catastrophe

Readership

Researchers, professionals and students in food security, food engineering, disaster management and public health, preppers

Introduction
Worldwide Crop Death: The Five Crop-killing Scenarios
No Sun: Three sunlight-killing scenarios
Food Storage, Food Conservation, and Cannibalism
Stopgap Food Production: Fast food
Fibre Supply for Conversion to Food
Solutions: Stored Biomass/Fossil Fuel Conversion to Food
Practical Matters: Energy, Water, Nutrition, Taste, Biodiversity, & Cooperation
Moral Hazard
Serious Prepping: A Guide to Necessary Research

Supporting Publications

Joshua M. Pearce and David C. Denkenberger, Life After Global Catastrophe: How Do We Feed Everyone? , SciTechConnect. November 24, 2014.
Joshua M. Pearce and David C. Denkenberger, 10 ways to feed ourselves after a global agricultural collapse - Elsevier Connect, Dec. 9, 2014.

Praise for Feeding Everyone No Matter What

"This book lays out the agenda for a new research field: how to feed the world in the event of a global catastrophe. This could be the most important research we hope never to have to use. Denkenberger and Pearce take a hard-nosed look at where we could turn for food in the event of the collapse of agriculture. Their ideas are innovative and striking, and surely worthy of further development." -- Robert Wiblin | Executive Director | The Centre for Effective Altruism, housed in University of Oxford

"It’s a fascinating read that gives us some great insight about not only a probably state of agriculture but also how different or similar it is to our current state. " - Christian Arca

"When I first read their manuscript, I was immediately struck by how fearless Denkenberger and Pearce are in taking on really big problems. This book is a real tour-de-force, and represents a practical, thoughtful response to seemingly catastrophic events. In addition, some of these solutions can have multiple benefits even in the absence of a global crisis, like reducing malnutrition where food supplies are currently inadequate, and sets out a research agenda that everyone can contribute to, from individuals to governments." ~Jeff Greenblatt

Eating Insects
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Discussion

1. Reddit PostCollapse
2. Reddit Survival
3. Reddit Mycology
4. Survivalist Boards
5. The Homesteading Boards
6. FreeRepublic board
7. Feeding Everyone No Matter What Future of Life Institue - MIT
8. GETTING TO UTOPIA Deb Chachra (also posted on her twitter account)
9. Food news for Thanksgiving 2014 - Crazy Eddie's (blog)

Experiments in Alternative Food Supplies

Do you have experience harvesting, processing and eating alternative foods discussed in this book. Discuss them here experiments in alternative food supplies

Media

1. KMO talks to Global Catastrophic Risk Institute researcher, Dr. David Denkenberger - KMO podcast listen
2. Welcome to the "New Backup Food Solutions For Catastrophes" Replay -- American Preppers Network (Jan. 2015)
3. Feeding-everyone-no-matter-what HMONG HUB music video online (~4,000 hits)

4. Feeding Everyone No Matter What Alkeenana News channel
5. Feeding Everyone No Matter What Frequency
6. Feeding Everyone No Matter What Blue Marble Space Institute, Institute of Science podcast

In the News

1-4. Bacterial Slime: It's what's for Dinner (After a Catastrophic Crop Failure) - MTU News, Eureka Alert, Newswise, Bioportfolio
5-9. Bacterial slime: It's what's for dinner - Science Daily, Indian Daily, Daily Me, Lab Manager Magazine, All About Microbiology
10. Bacterial slime may be survivalist solution to catastrophic crop failure - Phys.org
11. 10 Foods You Could Eat After a Global Catastrophe - Discovery News
12.Bacteria and Bugs Could Help Humans Survive Food Shortage- Nature World News
13. Managing food security after global catastrophe- News Medical
14. Surviving Global Disasters May Mean Eating Slime - Mysterious Universe
15. Bacterial slime: It’s what’s for dinner - The Global Fruit
16. Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday - Daily Kos
17. We'll be Supping on Slime in the food apocalypse - Science Made Easy
18. Bacterial slime or what to feed the world after catastrophic crop failure - Food Processing (Australia)
19. New Book Offers Food Source Options For Catastrophic Scenarios - BetaWired
20-24. Elsevier Expands Food Science Portfolio With Seven New Books - Elsevier, CNN Money, Street Insider, Broadway Book World, MW Market World,
25. Bacterial Slime – Supper for the Survivalist - Net News Ledger
26. Bacterial slime could feed the world after a catastrophic crop failure- RyPul Threat Assessments
27. Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Frequency (vid)
28-30. Bacterial Slime: It's What's for Dinner - Wisconsin Ag Connection, Win 98.5. WTVB-AM
31. Bacterial Slime: It’s what’s for Dinner (After a Catastrophic Crop Failure) - Innovation Toronto
32. Finding food after a disaster - Mining Gazette
33. Finding food after a disaster - Food Industry Today
34. After The Apocalypse, This Is What We'd Eat - Refinery 29
35. How We'd Feed Ourselves After The Apocalypse- PaleoFuture Gizmodo (~26,000 hits) Gizmodo on Twitter Gizmodo UK
36. After The Apocalypse, This Is What We’d Eat BUZZFEED Community
37. Here’s What We’d Eat at the End of the World - RYOT
38. What to Eat After the Apocalypse - Nautilus
39. What to Eat After the Apocalypse - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilus KQED Science
40. What to Eat After the Apocalypse the Trendy Things
41-42. How We Could Survive After the Apocalypse - Newser, Lockerdome
43. A Guide To The Most Nutritious Post-Apocalypse Cuisine - io9 (~10,000 hits)
44. The Post-Apocalyptic Diet - The Dish
45. Bacterial Slime or what to feed the world after catastrophic crop failure - What’s New in Food Technology Jan/Feb 2015
46-47. What Nuclear Winter Would do to the World's Food Supply - Long Reads, BBC
48-50. How to survive when the sun doesn't rise: sustainable food preparedness during a nuclear winter - Natural News, Ready Nutrition, The Common Sense Show
51-52. How to Survive When the Sun Doesn't Come Out: Sustainable Food Preparedness During a Nuclear Winter Top World Headlines, Christian Patriots,
53. Potential future disasters IMDb
54. Cool Links / Ideas -Its A Disaster
55. Aftermath: Finding practical paths to recovery after a worldwide catastrophe. Future of Life Institute

International Press

US Nuclear Stockpile Safety
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Australia

1. How We'd Feed Ourselves After The Apocalypse - Gizmodo Australia
2. Bacterial Slime or What to Feed the World After Catastropic Crop Failure What's New in Food Technology and Manufacturing Magazine Jan/ Feb 2015 Issue pg. 10

Austria

3. Welche Nahrung uns über einen nuklearen Winter brächte - derStandart.at (Newspaper/webportal)

Canada

4. Bacterial Slime: It’s what’s for Dinner (After a Catastrophic Crop Failure) - Innovation Toronto
5. The Rome of food security Richmond Review

Chinese

6. 细菌粘液——世界末日之人类的粮食 "Bacterial slime - end of the world human food" Labbase (China)

Dutch

7. Wat eten we? Bacterieslijm! - "What do we eat? Bacterial Glue!" MSN Nieuws (Dutch)
8. Wat eten we? Bacterieslijm! - "What do we eat? Bacterial Glue!" FAQT (Dutch)

German

9. Leben nach der globalen Katastrophe - Wie Bakterienschleim die Menschheit rettet - "As bacterial slime saves humanity" N-TV (German affiliate of CNN)
10. Es gibt eine Lösung für den Hunger auf der Welt – aber sie ist ziemlich eklig - "There is a solution to hunger in the world - but it's pretty gross" Huffington Post Deutschland

11. Wissenschaft Leben nach der globalen Katastrophe: Wie Bakterienschleim die Menschheit rettet [Science] life after a global catastrophe: how bacterial slime saves humanity - My Gully

Greek

12. Τι θα τρώμε μετά από μία παγκόσμια καταστροφή- "What you eat after a global catastrophe" Neakriti.gr
13. Τι θα τρώμε μετά από μία παγκόσμια καταστροφή - "What you eat after a global catastrophe" KPNTN

Hungarian

14. Baktériumon fogunk élni !!444!!

Macedonian

15. Храна за сите во случај на глобална катастрофа - "FOOD FOR ALL IN CASE OF GLOBAL CATASTROPHE"Fakulteti
16. Feeding Everyone No Matter What Daily Macedonia
17. Храна за сите во случај на глобална катастрофа Food for all in case of global catastrophe EHAYKA.MK

Portuguese

18. Que tal um mingau de bactérias para o jantar? - "How about a porridge of bacteria for dinner?" Planeta Sustentável

Russian

19. Ужин будущего - тарелка бактериальной слизи - "Dinner future - a plate of bacterial slime" News.Open.By (Belarus)
20. Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Rahva Raamat
21. Чем питаться после глобальной катастрофы - Mag.org.ua
22. Чем питаться после глобальной катастрофы What to eat after a global catastrophe
23. - конверсия материи в энергию и обратно путем добра и света "Conversion of matter into energy and vice versa, by goodness and light"

Spanish

24. Diez alimentos que se podrían comer tras una catástrofe global - "Ten foods you might eat after a global catastrophe" RPP (Peru)
25. Diez alimentos que se podrían comer tras una catástrofe global - "Ten foods you might eat after a global catastrophe" Entorno Inteligente (Venezuela)
26. Qué comer después del apocalipsis - Sanandolatierra.org
27. Investigadores descubren la manera de alimentarnos tras un apocalipsis "Researchers discover how to feed after an apocalypse" Alberta Catastrofes

Slovenian

28. Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe EMKA.SI Slovenian Book Store

Turkish

29. Olası gıda krizine karşı ilginç öneriler - "Interesting proposals against a possible food crisis" Firat News
30. Olası gıda krizine karşı ilginç öneriler - "Interesting proposals against a possible food crisis" Bestanüçe
31. Olası gıda krizine karşı ilginç öneriler "Interesting proposals against a possible food crisis" - Dogu News

United Kingdom

32. How We'd Feed Ourselves After the Apocalypse - Gizmodo UK

Where To Purchase Book Around the World

Australia

Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe Booktopia

Estonia

E-book: Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe - Krisostomus

German

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Japanese

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Norway

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Romanian

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Swedish

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