Global Food Shortage

Food shortage will be a serious problem for the future. The population is predicted to grow up to 7.35 billion to 9.2 million people as shown in diagram 1. So the food production has to be increased more in order to feed the world. But there are issues of the food production such as air qualities, water qualities, global warming, climate change, etc. The biggest problem in the growing food is the land. In order to grow food for 9 billion people in the future, we need a lot of lands. These issues are related each other. The air pollution causes global warming and low quality of water. Global warming makes the climate change. In these years, the air quality has been decreased in many countries such as China and India(shown in diagram

The low-quality water can damage food and it can lead to inedibility. The water quality impact on the distribution of the drinking water. The low-quality water needs to be cleaned and it costs money. If the animal drinks the low-quality water, it can lead to unhealthy condition or even death. The global warming can possibly make the crops too dried. In order to prevent crop drying, we need something to control the temperature or to keep the temperature not too high. If this is essential for all the farmers, this can cost a lot of money. Also, an animal may not be able adapt to the temperature change. Global warming caused ice melting in the

What I thought was the best solution was the entomophagy which is consumption of insect. The professor Arnold Van Huis, an entomologist at Wageningen University in Netherlands says “insect are many times more efficient than traditional source”. It is because the insect are cold blooded so they don’t have to use energy on maintaining the temperature. For example the cricket, it produces a kilogram of edible material from just 2.1kg of feed. For poultry, it needs 4.5kg. It’s 9.1kg for pork and 25kg for beef. As shown in diagram 3, the insect has sufficient amount of protein, carbohydrate, energy and fats. There is some complication within entomophagy. We have to be caring the species of the insect and whether it doesn’t make any diseases or illness. The scientists have to think about the specific genes when breeding. Luckily, less than 5% of the insect species harm humans. The other problem in the entomophagy is the looks. For the looks, it is very difficult for the people to admire the looks of insect. In some country in Asia like Thailand, they have a culture of eating insects but mostly, people aren’t familiar. The Wageningen University have carried out tasting sessions to see how the consumers are to eat insects. The university has thought about the presentation of the insect such as presenting them whole, grinding, extracting the protein. The university found that 9 out of 10 people preferred