Environment and Food Security Concerns

Theme of World Food Day,2008 World Food Security, the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy Credits: FAO Posted By: Dr Shuja ul Rehman Climate change affects everyone. But the worst hit will be hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, fishers and forest-dependent people who are already vulnerable and food insecure. By affecting the availability of [...]

For centuries man has been practising sustainable agriculture without any major damage to the environment.Increase in demand led to industrialisation and intensification of cultivation and livestock rearing. Mixed farming has almost faded and given way to stall feeding for livestock, indiscriminate use of chemical fertilisers for crop cultivation.Health hazards apart these practices are increasingly contributing [...]

It is pretty certain that we wil be spending considerable effort and resources in this century on measures to prevent humanity falling into the abyss of hunger and man made disaster. Centuries of ruthless exploitation of nature has taken its toll. Drastic climate change is almost a certainty. Food security or the lack of it [...]