EAN: 9783319232485

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN AGRICULTURE VISION INFINITY...

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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