Future Food Demand and Food Security With Sustainable Approach

Abstract

The major challenges of the twenty first century have been the changing climate, sustainability and the food security with ever increasing populations. The second goal in the historic Paris agreement on Agenda for Sustainable Development is “zero hunger” since hunger and malnutrition still remain a major concern and a huge barrier to development in several developing countries like India. With the fixed primary resources for agriculture like land and water, India will have to increase the productivity to fulfill demand. Other challenges like food loss or wastage, changing rainfall patterns and hydrological cycle and potential impacts due to climate change, it is imperative to work towards sustainable growth both economically and environmentally. This paper deals with production and supply of food, increase in population, per capita consumption, nutritional requirements along with technology demand, etc. It will try to give some recommendations to improve the productivity to maintain the increasing demand with the fixed land availability and other resources in the face of changing climate through sustainable development.