by Charlotte F. (Year 9)
-In the next 40 years, we have to produce as much food as the world has produced in the last 500 years.
-We’re not going to have enough food in 20 years' time.
-International and local experts say Australia could be a leader in securing global food supplies by exporting its farming and agricultural science smarts, as well as its produce.
-There are warnings that the country is not immune from a global food crisis and the instability that comes with it.
- Over the last 50 years we've increased the amount of food produced on the planet by 32 million tonnes a year.
- We have to increase that rate of increase from 32 to 44 million tonnes a year.
- There is no alternative to soil.
- To supply the amount of meat the world will be eating in 2050, we will need to discover three more North Americas to grow enough grain to feed all the extra livestock.
- In 2007 and '08, high food and oil prices sparked rioting in more than 20 countries.
- There are 23,000 edible plants on this planet and we eat about 300 of them.
These facts have been gathered from the following source:
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2010/s3253782.htm
-In the next 40 years, we have to produce as much food as the world has produced in the last 500 years.
-We’re not going to have enough food in 20 years' time.
-International and local experts say Australia could be a leader in securing global food supplies by exporting its farming and agricultural science smarts, as well as its produce.
-There are warnings that the country is not immune from a global food crisis and the instability that comes with it.
- Over the last 50 years we've increased the amount of food produced on the planet by 32 million tonnes a year.
- We have to increase that rate of increase from 32 to 44 million tonnes a year.
- There is no alternative to soil.
- To supply the amount of meat the world will be eating in 2050, we will need to discover three more North Americas to grow enough grain to feed all the extra livestock.
- In 2007 and '08, high food and oil prices sparked rioting in more than 20 countries.
- There are 23,000 edible plants on this planet and we eat about 300 of them.
These facts have been gathered from the following source:
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2010/s3253782.htm