Food Resources

ENV200
Environmental Studies
Dr. T.M. Mohan kumar
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 Q3 on 13th April
• Water
• Dams
• Agriculture

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• Wheat – 650 varieties – 588 m. mt. T. / yr

• Rice – 2,600 varieties – 587 m. mt. T. / yr

• Corn – 602 m. mt. T. / yr (Maxico, South America,

North Asia)

• Animal source

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 Global Dietary Supply
• 2,500 – 3,000 cal / day

• Global avge. – 2,770 cal /day

• North America – 3,692 cal / day = 2,699 + 993

• Central Asia – 2,240 cal / day = 2,120 + 120

• Australia & New Zealand – 34% animal source-highest

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http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

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• African countries - < 2,000 cals / day
Angola, Kenya, Mongolia, Somalia, Tanzania,
Zambia, Afghanistan, …….

Malnutrition / Undernourished
• People who receive < 90% of their minimum
dietary intake on a long term

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 Malnourishment / Undernourishment

• ~ 4 crore die / yr

• of these 50% are 1–5 yrs age

India
• ~ 30 Crore people malnourished

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• ~ 12% people of 3rd world countries don’t get
single meal / day

• > 100 children starve to death in South Africa

every day

• ~ 40% of global grain goes to feed cattle &

chickens
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Bio Fuels

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 Food Wastage
• 1/3rd of the food produced across the globe is
getting wasted (~100 Crore Tonnes)

• In Indian Weddings ~ 3,000 T consumable

food reaching waste bins.

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 Food Wastage
Study by G.K.V.K.
• In Bangalore Choultries
– ~17.5% of served food getting wasted.

• i.e., ~10,000 T ≡ Rs. 306 Crores / yr

• Wasted without serving, 4735 T ≡ 140 Crores/yr

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• Prices

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 Poison in our kitchen:
How deadly chemicals have invaded India's food chain ?

• Coffee - may have coffee-flavoured mud, starch or worse?

coal tar dye? - lung or skin cancer.

• Apple juice - It may just have fungi patulin.

• Ice-cold milk - Brace for a jolt of deadly chemicals.

• Antibiotic gentamicin, pumped indiscriminately into cows,

- hard-to-treat infections.

• Pesticide boric acid that kills cockroaches - lead

poisoning.

• Preservative formalin that can change your kidneys forever.15

 World Food Day
• 16th October
in recognition of foundation of UN-FAO -1945
The World Food Day theme for 2012 is
"Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world“

The World Food Day theme for 2013 is

“Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”

The World Food Day theme for 2014 is

"Feeding the world, caring for the earth “
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 World Fisheries Day
• 21st November
• in recognition of World Forum of Fish Harvesters
& Fish Workers
to highlight the importance of maintaining the
world's fisheries.

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