Not exact matches
India is projected to become the
world's biggest milk producer over the next decade, having tripled its
output during the first quarter of this century, a report by the
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) has revealed.
However, now that my eyes have been opened to how much
food and nutrients are wasted across the globe it gives a spark of hope that we will be able to feed the
world by better utilising the existing resources that we have as well as increasing
outputs from farms.
The issue with eating while your body is under stress is that you could be eating the most nutritious
food in the
world, however you won't be able to properly digest and absorb those nutrients because there is a decreased enzymatic
output in your intestines which can be as much as 20,000-fold.
Even the
World Bank endorses small farms as the way to increase agricultural
output in developing nations where
food security remains a pressing issue.
In 1994, «Seldom has the
world faced an unfolding emergency whose dimensions are as clear as the growing imbalance between
food and people» and «After 40 years of record
food production gains,
output per person has reversed with unanticipated abruptness.»
Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce
world net
food crop
output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.
In the United States, which surged ahead of Brazil in ethanol production in 2005, the near doubling of
output during 2007 and 2008 helped to drive
world food prices to all - time highs.
The New York Times chimed in with regular headlines such as, «Climate Changes Endanger
World's
Food Output.»