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Vision Infinity for Food Security - Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows! (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
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Vision Infinity for Food Security - Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows! (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture
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A new perspective on the global food security situation and
highlights the need for seeking a common vision and implementing
global planning to define the manner in which the human species
will manage its food security. The basic question of 'is there
enough food' is examined in general and then in some detail. The
history of food production is reviewed in the hope that lessons can
be learned from the past. But even after ten thousand years of
experience we are not able to feed adequately about a third of our
total population, despite what statistics can be made to tell us.
Intensive agriculture has stripped out the nutrients that support
plant growth and marginalised extensive tracts of land. The global
solution to feed the growing population has been and continues to
be - produce more food. Even during the last 30 years, about 95
percent of global research investments have focused mainly on
increasing productivity. However about a third of the food
produced, sufficient to feed over two billion hungry people, is
lost or wasted in the food value chain. Climate change is another
confounding factor that impinges on our discussions. Pests of all
kinds continue to destroy food before and after it is harvested,
even though the technology to protect it is available. A huge
amount of food is wasted in value chains, particularly at the
domestic level. Global food production systems are exposed to
unprecedented biosecurity risks posed by invasive harmful organisms
and this trend is likely to further exacerbate as current approach
to biosecurity is based on the notional premise that lines on maps
and the legislation that goes with them is sufficient to halt
epidemics. Solutions include extending the number of cultivated
plant and animal species to include those that can prosper in what
are currently considered to be extreme environments.
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