ES 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Food Prize, Iodine Deficiency, Marasmus
22 Oct 2018
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1:30 pm: though pop has growing (1. 7% avg per year), food production is growing quicker (2. 2% increase per year) In jinotega: 30% of children suffer from malnutrition: project gettysburg-leon, 2000-2001, hunger issues, chronic undernourishment. Less than 2200 kcal/day: food security, ability to obtain sufficient food on daily basis, famine. Large scale food shortages, massive starvation, social disrupt, econ chaos: causes, poverty, natural disaster, politics, war, economics, obesity. Solutions waste away: world food prize 2016, dr. mude (kenya, use satellite data to trigger payment to pastoral communities. Index based livestock insurance: helps support traditional lifestyle, uses economic markets to help people. Started with production of tropical, semi-dwarf, wheat, and rice strains growing all around the world. Shortcoming: a lot of food made, but it is really expensive. Some poor farmers cannot afford fertilizers, pesticides, hybrid seeds: green rev are high responders which only show results if they have perfect conditions from pesticides and fertilizers.
