Feeding the World in 2050
Feeding the World in 2050
The current world population is approximately 7 billion and it is estimated to increase to around 9 billion by the year 2050. However the land area available for growing food doesn’t seem to increase much due to the land degradation. If we don’t do anything, this world will be lack of foods, water and resources which means it will never be the same as now again. So, throughout this essay, I will be explaining about the causes of these problems and the possible solution to this problem.
First of all, if this problem doesn’t stop, there are possibilities of famine occurring anywhere. Famine, refers to an extreme lack of food supplies or food access compared to its population and death rate. One reason that famine occurs might be the unequal distribution of food which means that some areas have more suitable environment or developed agriculture while other areas have poor environment or agriculture. This makes one area become wealthy in food access while the other areas become lack of food access which the foods are unequally distributed. This usually happens in some Asian countries and many African countries because those countries doesn’t have suitable areas to grow food themselves in order to survive for example there are high chances of many African countries getting drought because those countries are closer to equator than any other countries. As you see in the picture below, people are waiting for the water in order to survive.
For the first time in human history, food access and resources will be limited on international scale by 2050. However this is not the first time this issue has been mentioned. And by year 2050, this issue will be frequently mentioned on a global scale just like the energy issues are today. To meet the food requirement, as the world population goes up to 9 billion, food production should be increased by 70 percent.
If we don’t do anything to solve this problem, it will result a serious disaster
The current world population is approximately 7 billion and it is estimated to increase to around 9 billion by the year 2050. However the land area available for growing food doesn’t seem to increase much due to the land degradation. If we don’t do anything, this world will be lack of foods, water and resources which means it will never be the same as now again. So, throughout this essay, I will be explaining about the causes of these problems and the possible solution to this problem.
First of all, if this problem doesn’t stop, there are possibilities of famine occurring anywhere. Famine, refers to an extreme lack of food supplies or food access compared to its population and death rate. One reason that famine occurs might be the unequal distribution of food which means that some areas have more suitable environment or developed agriculture while other areas have poor environment or agriculture. This makes one area become wealthy in food access while the other areas become lack of food access which the foods are unequally distributed. This usually happens in some Asian countries and many African countries because those countries doesn’t have suitable areas to grow food themselves in order to survive for example there are high chances of many African countries getting drought because those countries are closer to equator than any other countries. As you see in the picture below, people are waiting for the water in order to survive.
For the first time in human history, food access and resources will be limited on international scale by 2050. However this is not the first time this issue has been mentioned. And by year 2050, this issue will be frequently mentioned on a global scale just like the energy issues are today. To meet the food requirement, as the world population goes up to 9 billion, food production should be increased by 70 percent.
If we don’t do anything to solve this problem, it will result a serious disaster
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