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Journal of Food Science and Nutrition | Volume 2
December 09-10, 2019 | Dubai, UAE
Nutrition, Food Science and Technology
8
th
International Conference on
J Food Sci Nutr, Volume:2
Global Food sustainability: An integrated policy approach to eliminate the hunger of
over 815 million people by 2030
Nurul S Aman
University of Massachusetts, USA
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his research paper presentation is to bring the awareness
ofthebiggestchallengesineliminatingtheworldhungerof
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 aggravated by climate 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 farming methods. The increasing rate of water
and energy poverty are found in those 500 million small
farms, mostly in Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, which
have further aggravated the growing problems of hunger and
malnutrition 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
500 million small farms.
e
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nurul.aman@umb.edu