Food Security is the new concept of 21st century. Many countries included food security in their foreign policy. On the other hand, Climate Change is the major factor behind food Security both are inextricable to each other. The report” The Food Gap, The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective” revealed that global food production would not meet the food requirement of the world, food prices are expected to jump by 20% in the next ten years such as during drought, flood period and global wheat production will experience a 14 % deficit between production and demand as well as 11 % in rice and 9 % in maize. This report helights the future challenges of food Security as well as climate change. The question is how to save the world from the worst situation by implementing effective measures and strategy.
Thanks to UN Food and Agriculture Organization which reveals
the basic strategy to make sure the food availability, food access, food
stability and utilization. The policy of sate should adopt such measures that
there is a reliable and consistent source of quality of food, people have
sufficient resources of produce and /or purchase food, people have the
knowledge and basic sanitary conditions to choose, prepare and distribute food
in a way that results in good nutrition. Moreover, former UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki Moon has launched a Zero Hunger Challenge, inviting all nations to be boldly
ambitious as they work for a future
where no one goes hungry.
Population growth is another factor which equally
affects the food security at an unprecedented level. Let’s think about present
situation of COVID-19 that million
babies are to be born in Pakistan by 2020., according to UNICEF report. Zafar
Mirza also alarmed that million of women face the unintended pregnancies due to
limited access to contraceptive measures. All these facts leads to a conclusion
if the same trends goes on, the world will face a huge catastrophe in the form
of food security.
Former Prime Minister of UK Tony Blair, at UN Summit, says “ the world is
facing a worst situation of climate change but there is only a solution which
is Sustainable Development. All the countries should formulate their policies
according Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and try to meet the targets of
SDGs which will improve the condition of countries in particular and the world
in general.
To conclude by the words of Bill Gates “ The key thing
you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health”. In
developed world, according to Transition theory, Sweden is fall under the
category where population growth is controlled. This is only solution which
limits the population, reduce the demand, less strain on natural resources,
deforestation, saline water, emissions of Greenhouse Gasses all these lead to
slowdown the climate change process. It’s high time to understand the whole
cycle and concept of food security and climate change, SDGs is only Solution.
About the Author: He has done BS (Geology) from Sindh University Jamshoro in
2014. Afterwards, he joined Education Department, Government of Sindh and has
been teaching since 2015. In addition, he is a part of CBN since last year as District coordinator
and as a regular writer of CBN ClimAct Magazine.
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