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How will the global food crisis change over the next decades?
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Causes of Food (In)Security
1. pests and disease |
2. urbanization onto farmland |
3. flash floods vs. water shortages (worsened by climate change) |
4. rising prices: crop prices are constantly rising (Nigerian families spend 3/4 of their income on food) |
5. increased population* = increased demand |
*increase in population
By 2030, 5 billion of the predicted 8.6 population will be middle-class (50%+). |
Increased affluence = dietary change: India's demand for animal protein will double by 2030 from '03. China's demand is also increasing. |
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Food Waste
1/3 of all food produced worldwide (and 30% of total agriculture land) for human consumption is lost/wasted. Americans alone waste 40% of their food supply. |
food loss: |
at a production level |
food waste: |
at a consumer level |
Whilst losses are, on average, equal for all countries, the rates of waste are much higher in MEDCs than LEDCs. |
Exemplar: the Sahel
number of people at risk: |
18.4 million |
causes: |
erratic rain
poor climate
increased food prices |
number of rural households in Mauritania that are food-insecure: 25% = 700K people |
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The Current Situation
• Food shortages kill more people each year than AIDs, malaria and tuberculosis combined. |
• Currently, 1/10 (800 million) people are currently undernourished; 81% of this undernourishment occurs in LEDCs, which means that those countries have the highest rates of food instability. E.g. India, China, Bangladesh, Congo. |
• The two largest areas for undernourishment are SE Asia and the Sahel. |
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