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Food and Agriculture

Hunger remains a significant global issue, with nearly 3 billion people suffering from nutritional deficiencies. While food production has increased, malnourishment persists due to political instability and economic factors, leading to both undernutrition and obesity. Soil health and sustainable agricultural practices are crucial for addressing food security and ensuring a balanced diet for the growing population.

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Food and Agriculture

Hunger remains a significant global issue, with nearly 3 billion people suffering from nutritional deficiencies. While food production has increased, malnourishment persists due to political instability and economic factors, leading to both undernutrition and obesity. Soil health and sustainable agricultural practices are crucial for addressing food security and ensuring a balanced diet for the growing population.

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

LESSON 7
INTRODUCTION

• Hunger is one of the most prominent


persistent problem in the world.
• Food Security is the ability to obtain
sufficient , healthy food in day to day
basis.
• Combine problem of economic,
environmental, and social conditions.
Famine are large scale food
shortages, with widespread
starvation, social disruption, and
economic chaos.

Famines often triggered mass


migrations to relief camps, where
people survive but cannot
maintain a healthy and productive
life.

Economist Amartya K. Sen, of


FAMINES Harvard points out that political
oppression are almost always
the root of famine.
Balance of foods to provide the
right nutrients, as well as enough
calories for a productive and
energetic lifestyle.

The United Nations Food and


Agriculture Organization (FAO)
estimates that nearly 3 billion
people (almost half the world’s
HOW MUCH population) suffer from vitamin,
mineral, or protein deficiencies
FOOD DO Thus shortages results in
WE NEED? devastating illnesses and death,
as well as reduced mental
capacity, developmental
abnormalities, and stunted
growth.
Malnourishment is a general term for
nutritional imbalances caused by lack of
specific nutrients.
Kwashiorkor
Characterized by a bloated
belly and discolored hair and
skin.

HOW MUCH
FOOD DO Marasmus
A child suffering from
WE NEED? severe marasmus is
generally thin and
shriveled, like a tiny, very
old, starving person
HOW MUCH
FOOD DO Goiter

WE NEED? Iodine deficiency.


Swelling of the thyroid
gland.
OVEREATING
IS A GROWING • For the first time in history, there are
WORLD probably more overweight people (more
than 1 billion) than underweight people

PROBLEM (about 850 million).


• This trend isn’t limited to richer countries.
• Being overweight increases your risk of
hypertension, diabetes, heart attacks,
stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis,
respiratory problems, and some cancers.
• Paradoxically, food insecurity and poverty
can contribute to obesity
LIVING SOIL IS A
PRECIOUS RESOURCE
• . Most of us think of soil as just
dirt.
What is
• Soil can be considered a living
components:
Soil?
Soil is a complex mixture of six
ecosystem by itself
1. sand and gravel
2. silts and clays
3. dead organic material
4. soil fauna and flora
5. Water
6. air
Arable land is unevenly distributed
Other countries, although rich in land area,
lack suitable soil, topography, water, or
climate to sustain our levels of productivity.

Soil degradation reduces crop yields


Agriculture both causes and suffers from
environmental degradation.

Farming accelerates erosion


Erosion is an important natural process,
resulting in the redistribution of the

WAYS ON products of geologic weathering, and it is


part of both soil formation and soil loss.

HOW WE Erosion is a disaster only when it occurs in


the wrong place at the wrong time.

USE AND Wind and water move soil


Wind and water are the main agents that
ABUSE SOIL move soil around
HOW WE MANAGE TO
FEED BILLIONS?

1.The Green Revolution


2.Genetically Modified (GM) crops
3.Organic Production
CONCLUSION

• Food production has grown faster than the human population in recent
decades, and the percentage of people facing chronic hunger has
declined, although the number has increased. Most of us consume more
calories and protein than we need, but some 854 million people still are
malnourished. Much, or perhaps most, hunger results from political
instability, which displaces farmers, inhibits food distribution, and
undermines local farming economies
• Increases in food production result from many innovations in agricultural
production.
THANK YOU

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