Survival Food
The "Kaua`i Declaration"
Residual Capacity Model - Excess production depends on the same materials for emergency as are used daily.
- Production is quantitative and there is residual capacity to overcome any difficulties (e.g., a bad year).
- Provision for storage is avoided as it adds to the cost. It also lowers the price paid to the producers (e.g., excess supply)
Refrigerator
- The stored materials must be seen as inferior to their daily counterparts.
- There must be periodic reminders on the need for stored materials. This can be in legend, tradition or due to periodic minor events.
- The stored materials must truly be surplus and their loss should cause no difficulty (political, economic).
- The storage location or technology must separate the stored materials from the daily counterparts. This lowers the risk of loss or inadvertent use.
- The storage technology must last from the time of surplus (when the storage is created) until after the possibility of the need for the stored materials.
- All people must share a sense of satisfaction in the knowledge that materials are stored and that they need not be used.
- The scale (e.g., quantity) of the stored materials must match the needs of the community.
- The population that is served by the stored materials must be clearly delimited (and defended, if necessary).
- All members of the community equitably share the stored materials in time of need.
- Mechanisms must be available to periodically verify the quality of the stored materials.
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