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5 How Will We Sustainably Feed Everyone in the Coming Decade and Beyond?
Pages 59-66

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... of food energy consumed globally and the amount of have converged to drive a steady increase in global food fossil fuel energy, water, land, and soil resources used to prices since 2000, with prices rising almost 50 percent between April 2007 and March 2008 (Figure 5.1) .1 produce these kilocalories is only partially related to the Since the trajectory of the curve is uncertain in the years size of the global population (Imhoff et al., 2004b)
From page 60...
... The overall reduction in and intensification input agriculture raises a set of important quesof agricultural lands are not necessarily being repeated tions. Technologically intensive agriculture uses large in lower income countries in the tropics.
From page 61...
... Grigg, 1995; Mortimore and Adams, 2001) have ad vanced understanding of farming in the tropics by, for example, documenting the know-how and techniques role oF The geograPhical scieNces of smallhold farmers who often used mixed or polyGeographical scientists studying food production and cropping strategies that capitalize on agroecological consumption take an approach that is distinctive in relationships (between crops, crops and trees, and several ways.2 F irst, they examine food production crops and insects; Figure 5.2)
From page 62...
... The impacts of the steep rise in food prices during Second, geographical scientists use spatial analysis spring and summer 2008 hit hardest in urban West to study food production and consumption. They are Africa.
From page 63...
... developed in dryland regions with highly variable rainfall tend to Which farming systems will be most and least able exhibit the strategies of risk-averse smallhold farmers, to cope with climate change? such as diverse cropping strategies, grain storage, the One of the great challenges of the 21st century is deliberate straddling of multiple microenvironments, to meet the growing demand for food even as climate and the seasonal migration of certain family members change is affecting agricultural and farming systems (Mortimore, 1989; Davies, 1996; Moseley, 2001)
From page 64...
... ually updated as the nature of the global food economy Furthermore, many systems are now more vulnerable changes. As discussed previously, urban expansion has to environmental variability because they have changed eroded the availability of good agricultural land in many in order to meet regional and global market demands places, but the impacts of this process on food producfor certain products as a result of increased globaliza- tion are poorly understood.
From page 65...
... . In 2008, Burkina Faso became the second Even though multiple factors contributed to the African state to openly adopt GMCs, essentially the food crisis of 2008 (including use of grain crops for same genetically modified cotton that failed in South ethanol production, financial speculation, increasing Africa (Dowd, 2008)


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