The Food Problem

In the movie "Symphony of Soil", sustainable organic farming was touted as the one and only solution to mitigate and repair the damage from large scale industrial farming. There were a number of examples that showed how organic farming repaired environments that had been previously damage by monoculture industrial farming and the techniques that they employed in order to it. While I believe that organic farming is a great solution, I don't believe that economically it is viable for farming all over the world.
With the population of this planet growing exponentially year by year, we have to look critically at how we produce food in order to be able to provide food for everyone while still respecting the environment. In this aspect I believe that a number of the practices showed in the film is essential and that is abolishing monoculture agriculture that depletes the nutrients in soils after a number of years that makes in impossible to sustainably grow crops in the future. Especially now that climate change is creating more droughts across the globe we need to do everything in our power to not contribute to these drought conditions and one is by not using monoculture crop methods. If we continue to use these methods we could see conditions akin to the dustbowl of the 1930's in the United States, across the globe. These conditions would not only make it impossible for the people in these regions to produce food but also be the building steps to economic crises.
The last point that I want to make is that I believe that everyone should have a little knowledge about how to produce their own food. Even taking little steps like having a single tomato plant in a pot in your background can make people be more aware of how their food is produced. Along with the awareness, a respect for the hardworking people in the agricultural sector of of labor force will come. Without these people, we would not be able to live the quality of life that we are living right now and to them we should be eternally grateful.