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Food Security: meeting our growing population’s demand

Food Security: meeting our growing population’s demand. Food Security. Multi-dimensional Issues: Growing middle class Climate Change Water Pollution.

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Food Security: meeting our growing population’s demand

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  1. Food Security: meeting our growing population’s demand

  2. Food Security • Multi-dimensional Issues: • Growing middle class • Climate Change • Water Pollution "China lowered its levels of hunger and under-nutrition through strong commitment to poverty reduction, social security networks, nutrition and health interventions, and improved access to safe water, sanitation and education,"

  3. Food Security • Finite Resources • Middle class growth produces increased protein consumption • Two main sources of fresh water: - Yellow and Yangtze • Due to pollution, 2/3 of available land is not arable “China has managed to feed roughly 21 per cent of the world’s population on only 9 per cent of the world’s arable land.”

  4. Food Security • Possible Solutions • Landgrab • Africa, China-Russia border • Import Food • India, Thailand, U.S. • Technology • GMO • Better Use of Resources • Land restoration • U.S. EPA model? “Some researchers say as much as 70 percent of China’s farmland is affected by pollution”

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