AREC365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Sub-Saharan Africa, Food Security, List Of Sovereign States And Dependencies By Area

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: AREC365
• Professor: Terence Veeman

Document Summary

The future of the world agricultural economy and global food security. Feeding more than nine billion people by 2050. De nition of food security: access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life. Two essential elements: availability of food ability to acquire food. Famine: more in the news/tv, typically involves production shortfalls or loss of purchasing power/ entitlements short-term problem. A changing world food scene? thought we would see a period of modestly increasing prices but we"ve seen global grain prices weakening there is considerable uncertainty and much depends on global policy response. Causes of imbalances and volatility in the world food equation (size indicates how important they are) population growth was #7 on the list and this is interesting of course they were talking about the surge in prices. Tfr=total fertility rate in poor countries tfr higher than in rich countries world population projection for 2050: 9. 8 billion.