Yves here. This short but very important post by Jomo explains how the Green Revolution wound up weakening food security even as it increased output. A key reason is that this effort was initially government-led. It then over time came to be operated by international Big Ag, which pushed Green Revolution techniques beyond the point of maximum advantage to participating nations (this will include the US but with presumed less dire consequences than for poor nations). Keep in mind that neoliberalism prizes efficiency over everything else. Safety is not efficient. It requires setting up reserves as well as other break points that impede shocks from propagating quickly through what would otherwise be over-optimized system. The world is about to get a disastrous lesson of the cost of blind fetishization of eliminating pro-survival protections that inherently also create friction and costs.…