Fruit Tree Diversity And Fruit Consumption

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

Over the next forty years, global population is expected to reach nine billion people. This increase in population, combined with expected economic growth, will cause an increase in food demanded and inevitably drain the resources we use for food production. So far, agriculture has been able to respond positively to the rising demand for crop and livestock products. However, farmers are already faced with many new challenges associated with feeding an expanding global population. Farmers must now meet strict new emissions requirements and produce more food on fewer acres while minimizing their environmental footprint. The demand for food is expected to grow substantially in the next couple decades. Some of the factors affecting an increase in food demands are population growth, rising incomes of individuals, food supply factors, and biofuels.

When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.

Madagascar is a country plagued by food insecurity. This means they are without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable nutritious food. This problem is most apparent in their agricultural population. In order to improve food security their needs to be changes made to provide a sufficient food supply and reduce poverty in this growing population. Their society depends on producing the most food and or profit from their limited amount of land that is arable. One way to help this dilemma they face is with, Improved planting methods and usage of nonfood biomass or their exported products to produce biofuel. This in turn could be used to increase the total amount of food available. This can also provide food security to the agricultural sector where extreme poverty is most apparent.

The global food crisis is looming large and food situation in the world is becoming precarious. Providing food for millions in the poor countries of Asia and Africa has become a challenge. Apart from the droughts and floods caused by deforestation and global warming, converting the

The availability of food is based on the amount and quality of the food produced. The DRC agricultural industry supports ⅔ of the population, and is split into two sectors: subsistence and commercial. Four million families rely on subsistence farming to produce manioc, corn and tubers. What’s left of commercial farmers, concentrate on producing the export orientated food, but the DRC does not have much of a commercial sector because of the war, which has deteriorated the infrastructure of the market.

The low average yields of these staple crops are persistent across the majority of farmers’ fields and when this is met with increasing demands for these grains, food insecurity becomes prevalent. Unlike other developing countries around the world, Africa’s food insecurity is directly related to their inability to produce enough food (Sanchez 2002:2019). Some may argue that this issue of low crop yields in Africa can be solved by

The human need for food is one of the inherent and physiological needs; it is the most important factor for the survival and life. Food is an essential need, and human is forced to obtain food to quench the hunger. Proper nutrition and balanced is good for growth and leads to better health and longer lifespan. Initially, eating was only to crunch hunger, and feeling of hunger forced the human to consume everything that was available regardless of the quality and nutrition. Later, humans learned how to use the land and nature to provide their variety of food to consume. The urbanization and social life have caused many changes in the way human consume nutritional food. Today in regard to the growth of population and their need for food producing is one of the human concerns in contemporary society. As it is forecasted that by 2050 the world population will be 9.6 billion people. Due to the growing population and changing diets, the world will need to produce 69% more food (Ranganathan, 2013). Now, this question comes in mind that how this amount of quality food should be produced for the population. Although, we have advanced technology, several factors such as climate change and soil quality of the lane will restrict the production of food around the world. Thus, these factors will give negative impact and restriction in the different region. We will face a difficult challenge of overtime to meet with these four principles: access,

With the primary mission to eradicate world hunger and malnutrition, FAO has made it a priority to improve food production through enhanced agricultural practices in its member countries. For its humanitarian mission, the FAO is to provide assistance in food emergencies and the rehabilitation of food production and storage systems in member countries so food security is sustained and the alleviating of rural poverty. The FAO as its mission also provide timely interventions on need assessment and technical support for the development and

Across sub-Saharan Africa, most people live in rural areas and rely on agricultural for their livelihoods; and most of them are poor and many are hungry. While it is believed that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are part of the solution to global population and food scarcity in, give or take, 2030, as these under-developing countries find it difficult to achieve the goal of a complete end to poverty and hunger. Therefore, many organizations are perusing the way of beneficial producing crops for livestock Africa is the perfect fit to encourage GMOs because they could do far more to alleviate rural poverty and hunger in Africa.

Global food security has become one of the most prominent issues of the decade, as the world’s population, and thus the number of mouths to feed, is expected to reach 9.1 billion people by 2050. Despite growing income levels and overall economic growth, India continues to be one country that is severely affected by food insecurity, with a steady decline in calorie consumption per capita and a rise in levels of the population that have become food-insecure. Due to this confusing and contradictory nature of India’s food security condition, it has become significant in the realm of global food stability. Identifying the major reasons for food insecurity and the uneven impacts associated with food production in India, as well as opportunities for improvement within the country, are essential in hopes of understanding the nature of the global food crisis. While there are undoubtedly several reasons for current threats to food security, a close examination of the current social, economic, and environmental status of India demonstrates that a lack of crop diversification, climate change, and increasing westernization of Indian agricultural systems are three major contributors.

There are about 795 million people suffering from hunger in the world, from whom 21,000 die on a daily basis [1]. Although humanity is currently distant from eradicating this lash in every corner of the planet, several solutions are currently being evaluated to guarantee food security. GM crops are hailed by some supporters as the definite solution because of their greater nutritional value and higher yields with respect to traditional ones, while others consider them to be detrimental to the environment and pose health risks. Due to this lack of consensus, GM crops widespread proliferation has been currently hindered either by governmental legislations or people’s fears. In order to bring some clarification to the former discrepancy, a critical analysis, presenting both points of view, has been carried out, concluding with my personal evaluation.

Wild Edible Plants (WEPs) are often relegated in measuring household nutrition because no suitable food group categories exist that simplify their appraisal in conducting food consumption surveys. This paper is a theoretical article that triggers the positioning of WEPs in food security discussions so that programmes and policies can be more targeted. It discusses the diverging approaches adopted by food systems policies and nutrition programs to address malnutrition; and without considering WEPs. Among others, three food categories and 12 sub-groups are engendered to develop an understanding on how WEPs could be mainstreamed into food security and nutrition debates.

The world has been confronted with serious difficulties in curbing the rate of undernourishment, especially in sub-Sahara Africa (Vicenti et al., 2013; Arnold et al., 2011; Goenster et al., 2011). In developing countries, the livelihood and food security of smallholder land users are often at risk from unpredictable harvests, land degradation and climate change (Paumgarten and Shackleton, 2011; Mertens et al., 2000; Ndoye and Kaimowitz, 2000; Sunderlin et al., 2000). Of about one billion hungry people globally, 98% live in developing countries. Seventy percent of chronically hungry people are smallholder farmers, 43% of total farmers worldwide are women and 38% of youths in Africa are working in agriculture (Conway and Wilson, 2012; FAO, 2011). For instance, in forest areas of Cameroon, stunting and chronic malnutrition was experienced by 30.3% of children between 24-47 months in the South region and 27.8% in the Centre region (Socpa et al., 2008). Since the varieties of wildfruits are numerous (Matig et al., 2006; van Wyk, 2005) and vary from one season and climatic region to another, fruits and wild foods can constitute important sources of food during crop scarcity (Vicenti et al., 2013; Termote et al., 2012; Ingram and Shure 2010; Nesbit et al., 2010; Shackleton and Shackleton, 2004). Thus, fruits can serve as safety nets in the diet of households when

In Uganda and Tanzania banana consumption (in total and per capita) is among the highest in the world. They provide 10% of the calorie intake of more than 70 million people. Over 4 million smallholder households cultivate bananas and plantain which provides an annual household income of about US$1,244 – one of the highest smallholder income-generating agricultural commodities in the region.