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Challenges of Reaching Global Food Security by 2030 (Climate Change…
Challenges of Reaching Global Food Security by 2030
Climate Change
Elevated levels of CO2
Reduce the nutritional content of food such as grains, tubers, and legumes
Affects key nutrition such as zinc and iron
Sea levels rising
Reduced land availability
Droughts
Reduced land availability and livestock
Countries with high populations need more food
Food support and need for food support is disproportionate
Example: in Ethiopia, the number of people needing food assistance is 18 million
Population growth
Large number of people suffering from food and nutrition insecurity
Need to produce more food in the next 35 years than we have ever produced
Rising incomes
Results in evolving diets
Demand more high-value food products
Rich countries
Eat more
Demand food that is resource intensive to produce
Meat and dairy
Food prices rise
Increasing soil erosion and competition from urbanization
No new land for agriculture
Low and flattening crop yields
Insufficient grains
$40 billion a year would be needed to invest for agriculture production to grow fast enough to meet the world's needs
Political instability and lack of support
No real effort to create food and nutrition security
Not enough financial support for infrastructure and resources
Stocks at historic low
High prices for food
Farmers paid less
Cut costs and plant less
Pressure on economic growth
Corporations
Ruin land and climate of LEDCs
Turn private farms into cash crop farms
Countries are unable to grow enough food to feed themselves
Countries are too poor to buy food from abroad
Monocropping
Accelerated soil degradation
Increased insects and pests
Food crops are replaced by cash crops
Food scarcity
Supplying food to poor countries
Hard to find best approach
Little time to prepare
Creating effective demand
Rapid economic growth in emerging economies
Solutions may become intractable, cost greater, and damage irreperable
Limited natural resources
Problems will intensify
Poor sanitation