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Journal of Food Technology and Preservation | Volume 3
March 07-09, 2019 | London, UK
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International Conference on
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International Conference on
Food Safety and Hygiene
Nutrition, Food Science and Technology
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his research paper presentation is to bring the awareness of
the biggest challenges in eliminating the world hunger of 815
million people. The focus is to explain existing challenges faced
by 500 million small farms depending on the mercy of rain and
related natural blessings to make their ends meet from traditional
farming methods. The issues of vulnerability of these farms in
facing frequent natural calamities are further aggravatedbyclimate
change caused by increasing global warming. The study indicates
that seventy five percent of crop diversity were lost in these farms
mainly attributed to resource constraints to protect the crops and
frequent natural calamities. The study also found that over 4 billion
people in the world still do not have access to clean water for
drinking and irrigation, with no access to electricity either, most of
them living in rural areas depending their livelihood on traditional
farmingmethods. The increasing rate of water and energy poverty
are found in those 500million small farms, mostly in Southern Asia
andSub-SaharanAfrica,whichhavefurtheraggravatedthegrowing
problems of hunger andmalnutrition among all ages of 815million
people. UN reports indicate that in 2016-2017, 281 million people
in Southern Asia and 23 percent population in entire Sub-Saharan
Africa suffer from undernourishment. The same reports added
that 45% of child mortality under age 5 worldwide are caused
by malnutrition, which is about over 3 million deaths per year,
of which 66 million children in developing nations go to schools
hungry. In order to achieve food sustainability by achieving zero
hunger policy initiative by the UN sustainable development goals
by 2030, this research study has explored an integrated approach
of policy strategy to provide adequate technological, financial and
management resources to these 500million small farms.
Speaker Biography
Nurul Samiul Aman is a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston,
USA with specialization in financial economics and sustainable development with over
28 years of teaching experience at major colleges in Boston, USA. He is an author of
Macroeconomics Principles Textbook published in 2018. He earned his PhD from
Capella University, Minneapolis, USA; MA in Economics and MBA in Finance from
Northeastern University, Boston. He serves as a member of the editorial board of Asian
Journal of Inclusive Education (AJIE), a peer reviewed journal for inclusive education
and development. He teaches overseas as a visiting professor at different universities
in China. He also organises and hosts international conferences on sustainable
development goals at the Harvard University in collaboration with government of
Bangladesh. He previously worked as a business control manager of Information
Technology departments in high technology companies including IBM.
e:
nurul.aman@umb.eduNurul Samiul Aman
University of Massachusetts, USA
Global Food Sustainability: An integrated policy approach to eliminate the hunger of
over 815 million people by 2030
Nurul Samiul Aman
, J Food Technol Pres, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-796X-C1-004