Feb 19, 2013 Growing population and an increasing poverty gap
are major challenges for global food security especially when
the issue of biofuels produced from crops is introduced.
According to Tahereh Alavi Hojjat of DeSales University, in
Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, governments around the world
must address five major challenges if we are not to see an
enormous increase in human suffering, disease and starvation: 1
Energy security – This directly affects food prices through
fertiliser costs, farm energy use and transportation costs, as
well as the use of land for growing biofuel crops, which is
meant to circumvent our reliance on putatively dwindling fossil
fuel supplies and mitigate against challenge #2, climate change.
2 Climate change – Will increase by tens, perhaps hundreds of
millions, the number of undernourished people worldwide as
higher average temperatures negatively impact on food crop
yields. 3 Water security: is already becoming a major problem as
the population grows and consumption ris