Will the World Achieve Food Security in the Face of an Ever More Rapidly Growing Population? If so, How?
Will the World achieve Food Security in the face of an ever more rapidly growing population? If so, how?
Food security is a concept which basically means that every human would have a sufficient access to basic foods for a healthy diet without having to worry how and where their next meal will appear.
Food shortages often lead to price rises and in this scenario the wealthiest nations and people survive. In some cases food shortages have caused anarchy and even toppled governments. Many nations, even the big agricultural ones still rely on imports of food products. Even though UK falls into this bracket, it imports of 30% of its food and the figure is on the rise. It shows how food shortages are global issues and can not be addressed any other way. The food supply chains we depend on are global, which make everyone vulnerable to the effects that war and diseases have on the supply chains. With the future of food security under scrutiny it is important to note that even currently this has not been achieved globally, many people already die of starvation everyday, and lack of clean water is still a huge issue in some developing parts of the world. With this said and current problems highlighted it is estimated that food demand which is already unfulfilled in some parts of the world will have doubled by 2050.
Food security is undoubtedly a global issue when taking everything into accounts an the roles nations play in global food trade, all import and export and no nations can escape the situation the future holds, in order to combat this cooperation is definitely in order.
One thing which must be considered in this essay is the Worlds human population. The current global human population stands over 7 billion and grows by over 80 million people every year. In fact, the Population Media Center (2012), states that the current rate of population growth is 1.2% per year, which indicates that the current global population will be doubled by 2070.
Food security is a concept which basically means that every human would have a sufficient access to basic foods for a healthy diet without having to worry how and where their next meal will appear.
Food shortages often lead to price rises and in this scenario the wealthiest nations and people survive. In some cases food shortages have caused anarchy and even toppled governments. Many nations, even the big agricultural ones still rely on imports of food products. Even though UK falls into this bracket, it imports of 30% of its food and the figure is on the rise. It shows how food shortages are global issues and can not be addressed any other way. The food supply chains we depend on are global, which make everyone vulnerable to the effects that war and diseases have on the supply chains. With the future of food security under scrutiny it is important to note that even currently this has not been achieved globally, many people already die of starvation everyday, and lack of clean water is still a huge issue in some developing parts of the world. With this said and current problems highlighted it is estimated that food demand which is already unfulfilled in some parts of the world will have doubled by 2050.
Food security is undoubtedly a global issue when taking everything into accounts an the roles nations play in global food trade, all import and export and no nations can escape the situation the future holds, in order to combat this cooperation is definitely in order.
One thing which must be considered in this essay is the Worlds human population. The current global human population stands over 7 billion and grows by over 80 million people every year. In fact, the Population Media Center (2012), states that the current rate of population growth is 1.2% per year, which indicates that the current global population will be doubled by 2070.
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