To effectively fight chronic food deprivation, governments, non-governmental organizations, and global leaders across all sectors need to work together to find new solutions to world hunger. FOOD SECURITY means knowing where your next meals are coming. By empowering communities to produce or purchase their own food, families can be equipped to handle future food challenges.
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE is one of the solutions for ending world hunger. There is a need for a major shift in establishing food production systems that can nourish people around the world. Sustainable practices in agriculture, forestry and fisheries can provide enough nutritious food for everyone on the planet – while also generating sustainable incomes and protecting the environment.
Family farms make up 90 per cent of the world’s farms and produce over 80 per cent of the world’s food. They also manage about 75 per cent of farmland worldwide.
In many countries, organisations are providing FOOD AIDS to end the problem of world hunger. For example, in the United States, Feed the Future is America’s initiative to combat global hunger. The initiative brings partners together to address the root causes of hunger and poverty by boosting agriculture-led growth, resilience, and nutrition in countries with great need and opportunity for improvement.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS can help in changing farming practices from crop, forestry, fishery, or livestock production to the management of inputs and resources to market access. For example, eLocust3, an app is used at a global level to monitor and quickly detect desert locust so that crop destruction by these pests can be avoided.
In India, the government of Telangana state has implemented a new insurance scheme called Rythu Bandhu programme that grants farmers in the state Rs. 4 000 (USD 55) per acre per season to support farm investments and purchase farm inputs.
