What challenges are there to food production and supply?

Intensify food production method Increase area for farming

What efforts have been put in to increase food supply?

Green Revolution

- HYVs

- irrigated water

- mechanisation

- chemical fertilisers

- chemical pesticides High-tech farming

- replace land as medium

- stacking Modernise animal rearing

- sedentary animals / caged

- hormones

- antibodies

- mechanisation

- “factory production” GMFs

Deforestation

- Indonesia, Brazil etc Land reclamation

eg FELDA scheme Emplodering in The

Netherlands

APPLICATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Source: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/08/11/un-urges-u-s-to-halt-ethanol-push/

Impacts of Global Warming on the Environment

How will each of the following affect food production and supply, and hence world hunger?

Industrial crops & industrial uses for food crops

Climate changeEnvironmental degradationUrbanisation