ENST 320a Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Genetically Modified Crops, Food Security, Global Issue
8 Feb 2017
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The oysters that are big and that everyone wants take a couple years to grow. This project shows that they can grow bigger oysters quicker than normally. There are winners and losers: some peoples crops are going to fail and others are going to see large returns. We are going to see big changes and there are certain economic approaches that can help predict these. People are very against aquaculture in the united states. We don"t want to expand our farming we want to reduce it. 1930"s american dust bowl is an example of one of the driest areas in the united states. Migration as adaptation: going to have to move to the best places that will allow us to live. Global soil resources at significant risk: soil damage, soil loss. Roughly 131 million km2 ice-free land: roughly 38 percent of land used to feed, 7 billion people globally, but 1 billion people go hungry.
