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What the ‘food security’ agenda means for animal conservation in terrestrial ecosystems
Author(s) -
Gordon I. J.,
AcevedoWhitehouse K.,
Altwegg R.,
Garner T. W. J.,
Gompper M. E.,
Katzner T. E.,
Pettorelli N.,
Redpath S.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
animal conservation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.111
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1469-1795
pISSN - 1367-9430
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00541.x
Subject(s) - food security , business , population , natural resource economics , agriculture , agricultural economics , food systems , wildlife , food prices , food processing , population growth , geography , economics , ecology , political science , demography , archaeology , sociology , law , biology
[Extract] The goal of the 'food security' agenda – to provide the world's population with a sustainable and secure supply of safe, nutritious, affordable and high-quality food (Research Councils United Kingdom, 2011) – comes with considerable challenges. To feed the expanding human population, numbered over 7 billion and growing (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2011), it is anticipated that by 2030, crop production must increase by 43% and meat production by 124% (Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2009). Growing demand is expected to result in escalating food prices as transport and storage costs increase, potentially reducing access to food among the world's poor. Given the past relationship between lack of access to affordable food and political instability (Brinkman & Hendrix, 2011), food security is given a high priority on global and national political agendas