Food Security: A Long Term Issue
Journal Title: Advances in Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences - Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Food security……the term is often used, and a number of definitions have been offered for it. The United Nation’s FAO Committee on World Food Security offers this:”All people at all times have both physical and economic access to the basic food they need”. “All people,” at present, means more than 7.3 billion inhabitants of this planet, with that number growing by the day. In fact, despite efforts to the contrary, the world population continues to expand at an alarming rate relative to humanity’s past. Although Homo sapiens has inhabited this planet for over 2.0 million years, it took until the early 19th Century before its numbers reached 1.0 billion, but not even a century for the population to approach 2.0 billion. That’s correct, the human population of this planet stood at 1.6 billion at the start of the 20th Century, yet now, 115 years later, we are rapidly approaching 7.5 billion people on the planet Earth.
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William W. Riley
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