While this is not from a series, it addresses some important issues, IMO. The ... before the last sentence quoted is because I skipped a lot... plus more follows in the full article.
Quoting:
Food needs 'fundamental rethink'
A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", according to a leading food expert.
Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing "structural failures", such as "astronomic" environmental costs.
The new approach needed to address key fundamentals like biodiversity, energy, water and urbanisation, he added.
… Professor Lang, who is a member of the council, offered a suggestion: "We are going to have to get biodiversity into gardens and fields, and then eat it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7795652.stm