Reporting in The Contemporary World: Challenges in Global Food Security

Members:

Era, Mark Reiven R.

Viado, Alexandrei Sebastian C.

Lachica, Jerwin

Oblevias, Matthew C.

• One of the goals of Sustainable Development Goals, which is in number 2 is No

Hunger. Generations came and came through; the world is starving for food.

• Global Food Waste plays a vital role where the chances of Food Security is
shrinking abruptly.

• The absence of food security can lead the world into malnourishment and hunger
(Barthwal-Datta, 2014)

1. Rising Population
 According to the World Health Organization, Global hunger rose to 828 million in
2021. One leading fact is overpopulation.
 The solution for this challenge is give awareness to the people why family
planning is so important these days.
 Know every family demand food to survive, and bring multiple children in this
world can be a big problem to humanity.
 Another solution is to give knowledge to people about protective sex like wearing
condoms and contraceptives and even taking birth control pills that will help to
prevent the rising population.
2. Rising Incomes, Changing Diets
 Learn how to budget your income.
 Do not adapt the “One day millionaire, 14 days broke” concept
  Do not always satisfy your cravings because that may affect your income
and your savings will be ruined.
 Always invest your income in investment and not always in expensive fine
dining experience.

3. Falling Water Tables

 Falling water table is like a water shortage.

 The solution for these challenges is to promote irrigation

 Build more dams that will collect rainwater.

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the soil through various systems of tubes,
pumps, and sprays. Irrigation is usually used in areas where rainfall is irregular or dry
times or drought is expected. There are many types of irrigation systems, in which water
is supplied to the entire field uniformly.

●Slowing irrigation

1.To improve irrigation performance it is required not only to promote irrigation

scheduling methods but also to improve system design and performance, and to
improve farmers' abilities to control and manage their irrigation system more efficiently
during operation.

2.Drip irrigation is the most water-efficient method of irrigating a wide range of plants.
It is an excellent method for watering clay soils since the water is given slowly, allowing
the soil to absorb it and preventing runoff. Drip irrigation uses a fraction of the water that
overhead spray irrigation does.

●Foodless days

To avoid going hungry, we should learn how to store our food properly and plan our
supply. We must learn how to grow crops like veggies as food sources. Manage our
food supply and avoid food waste to the greatest extent possible.
 Maraming paraan para masolusyunan ang mga problemang ito. dapat natin
itaguyod ang sustainable agriculture practices para mabawasan ang soil erosion at
mapataas ang soil fertility. Ibig sabihin nito, dapat magtanim tayo ng mga halaman na
nakakatulong sa soil conservation, gaya ng mga punong kahoy at mga halamang may
mababaw na mga ugat. mahalaga din na magtanim tayo ng iba’t ibang uri ng pananim
upang mas maging resilient ang ating food systems. Kung mayroon tayong iba’t ibang
uri ng pananim, hindi tayo masyadong maapektuhan kapag mayroong climate change o
soil erosion. dapat nating suportahan ang research and development para malaman
kung ano ang mga bagong paraan upang mapataas ang soil fertility, mabawasan ang
soil erosion at ma-improve ang crop yields. Kailangan din nating mag-develop ng
climate-smart infrastructure tulad ng mga irrigation systems at water harvesting
techniques upang mabawasan ang impact ng climate change sa ating crop yields.
kailangan nating suportahan ang mga smallholder farmers para matulungan silang
maging mas resilient sa climate change at soil erosion. Dapat bigyan sila ng access sa
credit, market information, at technical assistance upang makatulong sa kanilang mga
pananim at matugunan ang global food security.

8. Melting water reserves

At no time since agriculture began has the world faced such a predictably massive
threat to food production as that posed by the melting mountain glaciers of Asia.

Mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps and
elsewhere. But nowhere does melting threaten world food security more than in the
glaciers of the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau that feed the major rivers of India
and China.

Ice melt helps sustain these rivers during the dry season. In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow
and Yangtze river basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, the loss
of glacial-fed, dry-season flow will shrink harvests and could create potentially
unmanageable food shortages.

9. Flattening yields

After several decades of raising grain yields, farmers in the more agriculturally
advanced countries have recently hit a glass ceiling. That production ceiling is imposed
by the limits of photosynthesis itself.

In Japan, the longtime leader in raising cropland productivity, the rise in the yield of rice
that began in the 1880s essentially came to a halt in 1996. Having maximized
productivity, farmers ran into the inherent limits of photosynthesis and could no longer
increase the amount they could harvest from a given plot.

In China, rice yields are now just 4% below Japan’s. Unless China can raise its yields
above those in Japan, which seems unlikely, it, too, is facing a plateauing of rice yields.

Yields of wheat, the world’s other food staple, are also plateauing in the more
agriculturally advanced countries. For example, France, Germany and the United
Kingdom — Europe’s leading wheat producers — had been raising wheat yields for
several decades. Roughly a decade ago, all three hit plateaus.

We have already begun to see the consequences of wheat demand outpacing supply.

Corn yields in the United States, which accounts for nearly 40% of the world corn
harvest, are starting to level off. Yields in some other corn-growing countries such as
Argentina, France and Italy also appear to be stagnating.
10. Little time to prepare

To state the obvious, we are in a situation both difficult and dangerous. The world today
desperately needs leadership on the food security issue. Any further progress requires a
total restructuring of the energy economy.

The gravity and urgency of the tightening food situation is such that we are not looking
at a crisis in 2030 or 2050. We are looking at an abrupt disruption in the world food
supply that could be just one poor harvest away.