Future

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Additional contact information
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati: San Jose State University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics for Enhanced Food Security, 2022, pp 823-823 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The world is at a critical juncture. In 2020, nearly one in three people did not have access to adequate food—between 720 and 811 million people faced hunger. Compared with 2019, 46 million more people in Africa, almost 57 million more in Asia, and about 14 million more in Latin America and the Caribbean were affected by hunger. Based on forecasts of global population growth, the current deficit to feed people around the world, and increased demand for greener fuel and biodiesel, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. As food-versus-fuel tension becomes more intense, the day will come when more agricultural products will be used for energy than food. Adding to the conundrum, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of the earth in terms of supply chain, resource availability, and human labor and has exposed our vulnerabilities in food security to an even greater extent. In essence, humanity is at a critical juncture, and what this unprecedented movement in our lives has thrusted upon us—the practitioners of the agriculture and technologists of the world—is to innovate and become more productive to address the multipronged food security challenges.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-031-08743-1_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031087431

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08743-1_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Series in Operations Research & Management Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().