{"id":2260,"date":"2018-11-30T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:00:39","slug":"fragile-climate-puts-food-security-at-risk-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/fragile-climate-puts-food-security-at-risk-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragile climate puts food security at risk, UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/fragile-climate-puts-food-security-at-risk-un-report\/#Relevant_for_GS_paper-1_3\" title=\"Relevant for GS paper-1&amp;3:-\">Relevant for GS paper-1&amp;3:-<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/fragile-climate-puts-food-security-at-risk-un-report\/#%E2%80%98Increasing_farm_output_is_hard_given_the_fragility_of_the_natural_resource_base\" title=\"\u2018Increasing farm output is hard given the fragility of the natural resource base\u2019:-\">\u2018Increasing farm output is hard given the fragility of the natural resource base\u2019:-<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/fragile-climate-puts-food-security-at-risk-un-report\/#Civil_strife_conflicts\" title=\"Civil strife, conflicts:-\">Civil strife, conflicts:-<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_for_GS_paper-1_3\"><\/span>Relevant for GS paper-1&amp;3:-<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2261\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY.jpg 960w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28THRDPADDY-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"intro\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Increasing_farm_output_is_hard_given_the_fragility_of_the_natural_resource_base\"><\/span>\u2018Increasing farm output is hard given the fragility of the natural resource base\u2019:-<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/783-778-684\/food\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>food\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>systems, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said on Wednesday as it renewed appeals for better policies and technologies to reach \u201czero hunger.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Population growth requires supplies of more nutritious food at affordable prices, but increasing farm output is hard given the \u201cfragility of the natural resource base\u201d since humans have outstripped Earth\u2019s carrying capacity in terms of land, water and climate change, the report said.<\/li>\n<li>About 820 million people are malnourished. The FAO and International Food Policy Research Institute released the report at the outset of a global conference aimed at speeding up efforts to achieve zero hunger around the world.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe call for action is very clear. It is possible in our lifetime and it is also realistic to end hunger and malnutrition,\u201d Inonge Wina, Vice-President of Zambia, told the gathering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Civil_strife_conflicts\"><\/span>Civil strife, conflicts:-<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Food security remains tenuous for many millions of people who lack access to affordable, adequately nourishing diets for a variety of reasons, the most common being poverty. But it\u2019s also endangered by civil strife and other conflicts. In Yemen, where thousands of civilians have died in airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition, the aid group Save the Children says 85,000 children under 5 may have died of hunger or disease in the civil war.<\/li>\n<li>In Afghanistan, severe drought and conflict have displaced more than 2,50,000 people, according to UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency.<\/li>\n<li>FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva noted that the number of hungry and malnourished people in the world has risen to levels last seen a decade ago.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAfter decades of gains in fighting hunger, this is a serious setback and FAO and the U.N. sister agencies, together with member governments and other partners, are all very concerned,\u201d Mr. Graziano da Silva said in a videotaped address to the conference.<\/li>\n<li>The FAO estimates that global demand for food will jump by half from 2013 to 2050. Farmers can expand land use to help make up some of the difference, but that option is constrained in places like Asia and the Pacific and urbanisation is eating up still more land that once may have been used for agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing farm output beyond sustainable levels can cause permanent damage to ecosystems, the report said, noting that it often causes soil erosion, pollution with plastic mulching, pesticides and fertilizers, and a loss of biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li>China destroys 12 million tons of tainted grain each year, at a loss of nearly $2.6 billion, the report said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for GS paper-1&amp;3:- \u2018Increasing farm output is hard given the fragility of the natural resource base\u2019:- Feeding a hungry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,392],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}