Farming For Our Future November 29, 2012Posted by acroanmph in
Global Health, Public Health. Tags: Agriculture, Climate change,
Farming, Food, Global health, Public health, Renewable
resources, Sustainability, Transitional Farming, Water We’re on
track to deplete the earth of it’s ability to produce food.
Global crop land increased by 12% but agricultural production by
150% over the last 50 years. We’ve managed to keep barely ahead
of the curve for overall food production. But not sustainably.
The projected world population growth will pass 9 billion by
2050, and that means an increase in food production by 70% and
better methods of distribution to meet the food security demand.
Agriculture’s continued dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels
for production/fertilizer/irrigation, machinery, processing,
transportation, packaging and marketing has direct and
unsustainable consequences for farmlands. A recent United
Nations study indicates that “all continents are experiencing
land degradation, with particularly