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Global Agri-Food Environmental Issues

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In this essay I will discuss what I believe to be the main issues we are faced by in order to sustain our global agri-food system by means of production, consumption and distribution of our food. Moreover, I will talk about the policies that have been and could be adopted to address these issues. The issues I will discuss are environmental issues, stress on natural resources and food waste.

Environmental Issues :

Environmental Issues are a major problem facing the sustainability of our global agri-food system in terms of production and distribution. The green revolution changed the complex of global agriculture by providing us with various new methods for farming.. It allowed the use of chemical fertilizers and machines to …show more content…

The carbon stored inside the remains falls into the soil instead of being mixed up into the atmosphere when the soil is prepared for planting, reducing the amount of carbon being emitted into the …show more content…

Fruit and vegetables have the highest wastage rates of any food according to a survey carried out by The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Food is wasted throughout the supply chain, from initial agricultural production to transportation all the way down to final consumption. In medium to high‐income countries there are high levels of food waste at the consumption stage. This is a result of supermarkets purchasing too much goods from suppliers and not selling everything, only having to throw out the unused food when it goes off. In addition to this, many food products are wasted by the consumer as a result of buying too much food in the shop only to have to throw it out when its not eaten on time. Every year, consumers in first world countries waste nearly as much food (222 million tonnes) as the whole net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes). In low‐income countries, food is lost on farm. This owing to pests, lack of proper storage or in the transportation and processing stage. For example, the food presently lost in Africa could feed 300 million people. If just one-fourth of the food currently wasted globally could be saved, it would be more than enough to feed 870 million people starving around the world. Some policies that could be adopted in order to reduce food loss are

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