An Introduction To Global Studies – Patricia Campbell

As a result, profound levels of poverty, undernourishment, and ill health affect billions of people in the developing world, while, at the same time, people in the developed world are increasingly suffering from the ill-effects of overconsumption. Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and a whole host of related health problems afflict millions of people who overconsume, including an alarm- ingly high number of children.

Across the world, over 1.2 billion people consume more calories than they need, many of which have poor nutritional value. In contrast, another 1.2 million are hungry, experiencing a deficiency of calories and protein.56 Millions more suffer from malnutrition, which results in ill health and compromised life expectancy. Women and children in the developing world are the hardest hit by malnutrition. More than five million children die of diseases related to hunger every year while thousands more are adversely affected physically and mentally by malnutrition.57 Although hunger takes its greatest toll on children and women in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, increasing numbers of urban poor in Latin America suffer from hunger.

Moreover, it is estimated that up to 10 percent of US households experience food insecurity.58 In contrast, one in five (20 percent) of American children are considered overweight or obese.59 Costs of increased agricultural production While improvements in food production have allowed us to feed our growing popu- lation, they have exacted many costs as well. The shift to intensive agricultural pro- duction to feed more people has increased our consumption of basic resources, such as energy, land, and water.

Some of our strategies for producing larger amounts of food have been particularly problematic. For example, the so-called Green Revolution of the 1950s (which, despite its name, actually marked the advent of the large-scale use of chemically based agri- culture) was an effort by scientists to engineer a limited number of improved strains of wheat and corn in order to increase food supplies in developing countries. Initially, this proved to be a great success because these strains yielded much larger crops than had previous grains.

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