Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters

Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters
AbbreviationALLFED
FounderDavid Denkenberger
Official language
English
Websiteallfed.info

Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (shortly ALLFED) is a nonprofit organization in the USA. It focus on finding solutions how to give food to people in case of big agricultural failure.[1] Such a failure could happen in case of big volcanic eruption, blackout caused by geomagnetic storms, cyber war or nuclear war.[2][3] To solve this problem the researchers at ALLFED search for resilient foods, which could create enough food for everyone even after global catastrophes. Examples here are resilient plants (like fungi or potatoes) or alternative sources of food (like seaweed or single-cell proteins).[1][4]

David Denkenberger and Joshua Pearce wrote a book Feeding Everyone No Matter What in 2014. The book discusses different technologies to give food for the humans in case of failure of agriculture.[1] Some years after, he founded the organization Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters to evolve a research on this problem.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Piper, Kelsey (2019-07-25). "The man who wants to save humanity from nuclear winter". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. Vandever, Bart (2019-07-31). "How to feed people after the apocalypse" (video). Reel. BBC. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  3. Flogeras, Jenna (2024-01-18). "Just how secure is the global food supply?". Advanced Science News. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  4. Bendix, Aria (2020-01-10). "A full-scale nuclear winter would trigger a global famine. A disaster expert put together a doomsday diet to save humanity". Business Insider. Insider. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  5. Denkenberger, David (2018-01-31). "We Have To Act Now If We Want To Feed Everyone When There Is A Global Catastrophe". HuffPost UK Tech. BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2024-02-19.

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