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Homeland Security Planning: What Victory Gardens And Fidel Castro Can Teach Us In Preparing For Food Crises In The U.S., A. Bryan Endres, Jody M. Endres

A. Bryan Endres

Food security is an essential element of comprehensive government crisis response plans. The absence of a terrorist attack on the agricultural sector, however, has been “more by luck than design” and the American public has a false sense of food security due to the invisibility of its complicated food supply chain. Current planning efforts, grounded in the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 and a series of Presidential Directives, rely exclusively on the status quo of conventional agriculture and neglect the potential security benefits of regional and local food networks. Two historical examples, the World War II Victory Garden program and Cuba’s …