Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann

Novara Media · Mar 23, 2026 · 1h 45m

There’s nothing in the world more important than the food system. The twentieth century was scarred by enormous famines – and, like the one in Gaza, they are still deliberately engineered. But since the 1970s, the absolute number of deaths from famine have dropped by over 90%. On a global scale, we now make so much food that farmers will sometimes destroy it just to keep the prices high. How is there so much food? And, amid all these calories, how are so many people still malnourished? Why is it suddenly all so expensive? And is it all about to come crashing down? Charles C. Mann tells…