Demand for food is increasing worldwide. What is the cause of this? What measures can the international community take to meet this demand?

Over the

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50 years, global

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for

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has approximately tripled.

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rapid growth stems from several reasons,

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it is primarily caused due to an increasing

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population

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from about 3 to more than 6 billion people as well as increased per-capita

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due to rising living standards.

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currently there is a huge

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demand supply

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demand, supply

gap, it can be met by taking appropriate actions.

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essay will discuss both the reasons for

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demand

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and the measures needed to fill

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gap. There are two main factors contributing to

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greatest pressure of never-ending

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. The

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one is the

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’s

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, which has grown exponentially over the

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150 years. Naturally,

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additional

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will have to be fed. The

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for

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has

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has, therefore

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, gone up.

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, changing

diet

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is another dominant driver of

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requirement. As incomes grow, people move away from a

diet

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consisting largely of staple

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crops (

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as rice, wheat, corn, vegetable oil, and legumes) into a

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that includes more fish, meat, dairy products, and eggs.

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higher-income

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requires the feeding of livestock. Cattle and sheep can be fed grass or grain. Hogs, poultry, and fish must be fed grains and protein meal.

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, it is likely that the

next

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40 years will require increasing amounts of grazing land and much higher production of feed grains and oilseeds to meet increasing demands for a higher-protein

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.

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, tackling

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problem before it worsens is crucial. We could do much to ease the pressure on the global

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system by looking

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at

food

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waste, which alone takes roughly 30-40% of the

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’s calories, but it rarely receives the attention is deserves. While we can’t fully eliminate

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waste, surely we can cut it substantially in the coming decades.

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, we can curb the situation by transforming diets where they are already very rich, like North America and Europe. It is

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imperative to focus on the changing diets of newly affluent

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people, for

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, new middle-class people in the cities of China, India, Indonesia and elsewhere to curb the

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, thereby reducing dramatic impacts

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system. In conclusion, the

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is facing tremendous challenges to feeding a growing, richer

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population

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. To address these challenges, we will need to deliver more

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to the

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through a balanced mix of growing more

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and using the

food

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we already have more effectively