The fact that the global population is anticipated to grow over the next few decades implies the need to have more food that would feed the extra population. According to Huston (2019), close to one quarter of the current world population are already suffering from malnutrition while approximately a billion experience hunger. If the world cannot manage to feed the current population, significant questions should be raised concerning the ability of the planet to feed its future population. While some experts, such as Dyson (2016) suggest that increased food production would be an option, it would not be viable. The most viable solution would be to device methods that would reduce food wastage and transport surplus produce to regions of the world that lack production capabilities since the current food production is already enough to feed ten billion people (Mandyck & Schultz, 2015).
Climate change is an issue in the attempts of the planet to feed its anticipated population surplus. Changes in the climatic conditions of the globe have adverse implications on the availability of arable land, clean water for agriculture, and the conditions under which agriculture thrives. While some regions on the globe would have sufficient rain and favorable conditions for agriculture, others would turn into deserts (Huston, 2019). Additionally adverse weather conditions would affect the distribution capability for produced food in one region to the next.
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Planting would be more efficient in global food sustainability than more agriculture. More agriculture, as Mandyck and Schultz (2015) argue, would require the use of more chemicals and more land for cultivation and animal keeping that would have more adverse effects on the environment, such as pollution of water sources, release of more greenhouse gases, and others.
The best solution to the problem of feeding the surplus global population would be to increase the capacity to store produced food and keep it fresh enough to be distributed to regions in the world that cannot produce their own. Additionally, the world may want to embark on curbing climate change, especially through reducing the production of greenhouse gases as well as increasing the ability of the atmosphere to absorb such gases, especially carbon through planting more trees.
References
Dyson, T. (2016). Population and food: global trends and future prospects . Routledge.
Huston, T. (2019). How do we feed the planet in 2050? Retrieved 13 February 2019, from https://www.theguardian.com/preparing-for-9-billion/2017/sep/13/population-feed-planet-2050-cold-chain-environment
Mandyck, J. M., & Schultz, E. B. (2015). Food foolish: The hidden connection between food waste, hunger and climate change . Farmington, Connecticut: Carrier Corporation.
