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Overcoming Global Food Security Challenges through Science and Solidarity
Author(s) -
Barrett Christopher B.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/ajae.12160
Subject(s) - food security , solidarity , productivity , business , value (mathematics) , yield (engineering) , quality (philosophy) , natural resource economics , marketing , economic growth , political science , economics , agriculture , geography , philosophy , materials science , archaeology , epistemology , machine learning , politics , computer science , law , metallurgy
The world faces formidable, but manageable, challenges in achieving food security in a world growing beyond 9 billion people in the coming decades. Five big challenges will necessitate shifting innovation strategy to place greater emphasis on sustainable increases in diet quality, on total factor productivity ‐ not just crop yield ‐ growth, on social protection programs, on Africa, on post‐farmgate agri‐food value chains, on risk management, and on reducing the land and water footprint of food production. We must be progressive in both senses of the term, having faith in science as an engine of societal advance, and standing with marginalized populations.