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Food security
- Growing topic of concern
- Global food system always change
- keep changing for needs tomorrow
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Today
- food vital everybody
- system supported by network of actors
- from farm to fork
- urban. infra, gov pol, evol cons pref, rising incomes, climate change
- all have trigger shifts/disruptions
- on how food is grown, handled, distributed
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Example
- 2050 = 9 billion planet
- Middle class = rapid expansion
- Billions people out poverty
- Mideast and North Africa x2
- Sub-Saharan Africa x3
- Asia x 600 %
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What does this matter?
- trem victory but new strains food sys
- people more income = change eat
- shift staple food to fats, oils, proteins
- not feeding + people but feed diff.
- need more food 30-70%
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Recent past
- achieve this feat + production - land
- 1960s 3 billion high capacity
- develop staple food = corn
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Summary
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Innovations = important
- Chinese Teacher
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always adapt to perpetual evol.
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Very Important Person
- She likes tulip