The headlines are pretty damn dire, and it’s easy to become paralyzed in this quagmire of climate chaos, food system problems and grief. “Spain facing food shortages as severe drought leads to crop failure.”“The Global Food Crisis: Impact on the Asia Pacific Region.” Do we really want to read these headlines? If we still have access to food, how much do we really have to worry? Last year, U.S. consumers saw the largest annual increase in food prices since the 1980s. Let’s say that another way: in the U.S., we saw the largest annual increase in food prices in almost 50 years. With technology and efficiencies of scale, you’d expect the opposite. But that isn’t happening. While food prices generally increased about 2% in prior years, they increased about 11% from 2021 to 2022. Inflation contributed to the increase. But there were other factors—like global disruptions to the food supply chain—that may have had a greater impact. And not everyone felt this increase the same way, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. I am from the South, Texas to be exact, and I absolutely love to host friends and family. It is one of my favorite ways to show people that I love them, so when I see headlines like these, I want to fix them. There is clearly intervention needed at a lot of levels, economic, political, financial, social as well as an enormous amount of collaboration. But none of that will happen without creativity which is the pulse of innovation. Thankfully, we have resources and tools on hand today that we might have only dreamed of a decade ago.