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Overcoming food shortage - Coggle Diagram
Overcoming food shortage
Technology
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Storage
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In LDCs, this can be achieved through usage of Silos, which is an airtight structure for storing crops. This will result in higher yield as less chance for pest infestation and contamination.
This allows food to be transported further away, leading to a greater supply and variety of food.
However, Silos can be expensive for poorer farmers, as well as crops that are not dry promoting fungus growth in Silos. In addition, refrigerating of crops are incredibly expensive It also takes up a lot of space.
Farming Technology
Irrigation
Explanation: Drier or unfertile land converted to be suitable for farming as water is channeled to these lands.
This leads to more Land to Farm on, more crops to grow leading to an increase in crop yield
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High-Yielding Varients
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They also have a faster growth rate compared to normal plants, leading to a faster rate of crop yield.
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Social
Supporting Local Farmers
Customers can support locally produced
This helps diversify sources of food supply, enhancing the food security of the country and making it less reliant on food imports.
It helps keep local farmers in buisness through ensuring demand for crops, helping them ensure their share of the market
This is done by making locally produced food less expensive than imported food, making local food more affordable, enticing people to purchase it.
Population control
In many LDCs, population growth is faster than food production growth.
This will eventually lead to food shortage due to the incredibly low supply with a higher demand.
One way to fix this problem is through educating the population on familiy planning, as well as giving them access to reproductive health facilities.
Such an example is in the Philippines, where the supply of traditional staples sich as fish are not enough to meet the increasing demand. In some villages in the Philippines, community-based family planning progrrammes have been introduced to provide people with contraceptives, devices used to prevent pregnancies. These programmes aim to slow down population growth to alleviate food storage