Feeding Nine Billion Summary

The global population is expected to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050 and scientific projections indicate that world is on a trajectory towards an environmental and global food crisis. World Leaders, environmental enthusiasts and aid agencies have cause for alarm as they support urgent policies for change, for without them mankind will face unprecedented food insecurity. In 2015 estimates were that there were “some 795 million people” [World Food Programme, 2015], experiencing food insecurity and 3.1 million children under 5 died through malnutrition, while Australians continue to waste an estimated 361 Kg’s of food per person per yr [PMSEIC, 2010, p.44] All the while the earth groans under the weight of Greenhouse Gas Emissions [GHG], deforestation, soil degradation and

Before revealing plan 4.0, Mr. Brown explains the constraints, setbacks, and conflicts of the current world: skyrocketing food costs, steady increase of hunger (projected 1.2 billion by 2015), limited irrigation

Even though America may prosper, the future it’s still dark for many other countries and there seems to be no viable solutions. With the scarce amount of food that we have, it seems like an impossible task, with only three times what we require to feed the world´s population it is impossible to choose an alternative, such as distributing this food among everyone,

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”- Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

The three articles, National Geographic- Feeding 9 Billion, Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, and Don't ask how to feed 9 billion people, all state the problem of feeding a growing population with all of the articles provide possible solutions. My response to these articles is that I am encouraged that all of these authors are addressing the issue of "How to feed a growing population?" If some people already care about improving the problem, then we can ask or persuade other people to contribute to the solution.

Food is a vital source for the survival of mankind. The current global food crisis has become too significant a problem that we cannot avoid this issue any further. Several solutions are made to salvage the situation like educating the nations on eating habits, population control and providing food and financial aid to poor countries that face hunger and famine. However, enforcing birth control and changing eating habits is possible but difficult to change the mindset of billions of people within the near future, what we need is an immediate response to tackle this exponentially increasing problem. The most efficient solution to solve

In July 2013 a report issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs[31] warned that with 2.4 billion more people by 2050, the amount of food produced will have to increase by 70%, straining food resources, especially in countries already facing food insecurity due to changing environmental conditions. The mix of changing environmental conditions and the growing population of urban regions, according to UN experts, will strain basic sanitation systems and health care, and potentially cause a humanitarian and environmental

Explains how we have decreased hunger in the past two decades but it also adds on that one in eight people is still going hungry. It goes on to explain the challenges that we are currently facing that make it difficult to stop hunger all together. One of the challenges that is explained is Climate Change. Climate change has affected hunger because many countries have lost their source of crop growth due to water scarcity, soil quality loss and many other factors. With all these factors in mind many organizations are trying to find ways in working around Climate Change to help Rural areas become less hungry.

In this article by AGENDA they discuss how changes in the world’s diet could end world hunger by 2030. Based on the studies that the United Nations has performed, individual’s diet’s, in both wealthy and developing countries, need to include more plant-based foods instead of red meats. Cutting food waste and poor nutrition is also a key change that needs to happen in the effort to end world hunger. The assistant director-general of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization told AGENDA “ I don’t think it’s all that ambitious to eliminate hunger,” due to rising incomes in large portions of the world, improvements in food transportation,

Population experts predict that, by the year 2100, there will be 10 billion humans on the Earth. And yet, the world has not made valid plans regarding how to develop enough food to feed that number of people. Second only to clean water availability, feeding their people could end up being the biggest problem facing many countries around the world. The five countries with the highest projected populations are India, China, Nigeria, the United States, and Tanzania. Those countries alone are expected to have a combined populace of 4 billion hungry souls. That’s a lot of people to feed.

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

With the worlds population said to increase to 9.6 billion by 2050 (according to the U.N) demand for food supply will increase dramatically. 60% more food will be required by 2050. (Alexandratos N 2012)

In the article “The World Food Crisis: What is Behind it and What can we do”, Holt-Gimenez argues that the world food crisis has a significant impact on people all over the world, hindering opportunities for people to purchase food. In addition, Holt-Gimenez provides the roots and solutions for the crisis. Some of the causes for this crisis that he lists include an “increase in grocery bill, and the growing crisis locally”(Holt-Gimenez,2008). A few solutions “include worldwide assistance on manufacturing foods” and “giving fair prices to workers, farmers, and consumers” (Holt-Gimenez, 2008). This article provides readers with insight on a variety of reasons for the origins, and solutions for this disaster. The critical reflection will deliver a summary and an analysis for the pros and cons of the arguments that Holt-Gimminez made.

Food is the foundation of human live and people cannot survive without it. Food security is a vital issue facing the governments around the world. However, food shortage is becoming increasingly severe in this day and age. There are several reasons which led to the universal food shortage and they are interconnected to each other. Increasing world population, extreme weather and the wide spread use of biofuels are the main causes of worldwide shortage of food. These factors lead to food price rises rapidly.

With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our current global food system will meet future food needs. Ensuring that all people have access to adequate and nutritious food produced in an environmentally and socio-culturally sustainable manner is one of the greatest challenges of our time (Vinceti et al., 2013). The consumption of fruits and vegetables are generally low in developing countries and in sub-sahara Africa making food insecurity (FIS) and undernourishment a daily reality for most households. Undernourishment is defined as an extreme form of food insecurity arising when food energy availability is inadequate to cover even minimum needs for a sedentary lifestyle (FAO et al., 2012). Food security involves the means by which people have access to food and use it. Inadequate use of food at the household level leads to inappropriate care and poor feeding practices which are the major causes of undernourishment, poor nutritional status and micronutrient deficiency (Johnston et al., 2014; Lock et al, 2005). Undernourishment which is used interchangeably with chronic hunger or hunger is the outcome of poor nutritional status and micronutrient deficiency (FAO et al., 2012). It is food intake that is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements