Although unconfirmed, unknown climate change is directly proportional to the population explosion. In addition, low agricultural output drastically will cause starvation.
International aid organization Oxfam warns poor farmers the results will drastically increase global poverty and hunger over the next two decades. Oxfam estimates the price of foodstuffs, such as corn and rice will continue to skyrocket.
These increases could reach 130-180% before 2030. In a world where the poor spend 80% of income for food. For example the average Filipino, they spend four times more revenue than the average British person.
For them, food shortages and drastic price increases that will encourage and enlarge the potential of the increasing number of people who suffer from hunger. In a recent report Growing a Better Future, Oxfam said, referring to current trends, world population will reach nine billion by mid century.
Meanwhile, the average growth rate of agricultural output almost halved since 1990. If allowed to continue, the gap between demand and supply of food will continue to widen. "The system should be modified foods. In 2050, there will be nine billion people on Earth and food demand will increase 70%, "wrote senior climate adviser Robert Bailey of Oxfam in a report.
This request must be met even if the results did not rise, increasing water scarcity, and competition over land also increased, he added. "Agriculture must quickly adapt to climate change and begin to reduce its carbon footprint arising," he explained.
Oxfam report, climate change has driven up food prices in many areas due to drought and desertification. Moreover, of all the factors contributing to rising food prices, a factor that would also create the most serious impact in the coming decades.
"Climate change impacts on food prices obviously closely related to climate change impacts on crop production," writes Bailey. Yields of rice is estimated to decline by 10% each increase of one degree Celsius in the dry season minimum temperature.
In addition to increasing global temperatures, climate change 'will increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather like heat waves, droughts and floods are able to' remove 'harvest in a single lunge,' the report said.
Oxfam said that global poverty is driven in a broken system in which rich countries exploit the poor. To control this problem, the international community should deal with 'the injustices prevalent in the food system began to farm to farm'.
"We produce more food than necessary. In rich countries, food is a lot of waste. In developing countries, nearly one billion people do not get mananan, "she added.
Industrialized countries have to start changing its main policy to fix this broken system, he also says Oxfam. This country should direct tax relief on clean energy initiatives and give a tax on greenhouse gas emissions.
Furthermore, "We must manage the risks involved with making food reserve system, improve transparency in commodity markets, sets export control regulations, and an end to agricultural subsidies that distorted trade."
This new report refers to changes that must be done to reduce global poverty and hunger. In Brazil, social activism produces a third of agricultural policies that reduce hunger in 2000-2007.
Vietnam managed to achieve comparable results through land reform and investment programs in the areas of small farms (one farm family). "Fortunately, the necessary transformation already underway led by individuals, organizations and movements that think about the future," concludes the report
