What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word `catastrophe’ or `crisis’? Earthquakes? Or to be more vastly, global warming? Surprisingly, there is one more, which is a phenomenon which the amount of food that people can eat is very little. Food is a necessary thing for survival. Even though it sounds like a distant problem, in some parts of the world, we are already suffering from food shortage. There are three solutions about it. Using modern technology, knowing the current situation, and being aware of it from getting worse.

 First, we can use modern technology to solve the food shortage problem. AI tech is quickly developing, and there will soon be AGIs (Artificial General Intelligences), which can do a lot of work all by itself and is much smarter than AIs. So, it is highly likely that the A(G)Is will give us an practical and efficient solutions to solve the problem with the vast amount of information it has access to. Also, without AIs, we can use AgTech, which means agricultural technology to make more food and providing it to many people fairly and equally which can solve the food shortage problem. Like this, proactively using technology, we can solve the food shortage problem.

 Second, we have to know the current situation and evaluate the solution. There are many examples of weaknesses being found after executing a so called solution. For example, there is the Green Great Wall Project of China. They planted lots of trees to stop landscapes from turning into a desert, but ended up wasting water and decreasing the biodiversity. Also, there is the example of the project Target Canada, which is a project to revive the Canadian market. The government executed the project without enough information about local shopping habits, and pricing expectations. The data was inaccurate, leading to empty shelves and poor customer experiences. We can know that not enough assessment, the solution could fail, so we need to figure out the current situation and evaluate the solution as much as we can.

 Third, we have to prevent food shortage from getting worse. Instead of trying to solve the problem of food shortage immediately, we have to do it step by step. And the first step is to slow down the rate of the problem spreading across the globe. We can do it by doing simple things like eating less meat or eating local food. Also, we can reduce shower time, because using less water means that we can grow food with that water. Trying to solve the problem that is making 24,000 people die each day at once is almost impossible, so we should do it slowly improve the situation.

 In this way, we can solve or at least slow down the problem of food shortage. I hope that in the near future, food shortage can become just a story from a SF book and will never happen again.