Imbalanced Food Supply

As we have studied, human population differs a lot from all of the other organisms’ population. This is basically established because the economic model that build up our society determines the distribution of the resources. We are governed by the world’s currency and the capitalism. This, combined with the environmental conditions that make up a biome, are mostly the reason of the gap that has been established between countries in different economical levels. This gap is presented also in the FOOD SUPPLY.
It is important to establish that in fact, there IS enough food in the world BUT there is gross imbalance in its distribution. The imbalanced repartition of food supply leaves part of the people of different countries, or even inside the same country, in precarious conditions.

FOOD FACTS

• World food production is concentrated in the northern hemisphere temperate zones.
• There are approximately 3 chickens for every person.
• 90% of land is not adequate for crops.
• LEDC’s have 80%of the population but eat only 56% of the world’s meat.

In the LEDC’s where a greatest part of the population has no an appropriate access to the food supply, we can find cases of undernutrition and malnutrition

Undernourished those that do not obtain enough energy from the food they eat

Malnourished those whose food has enough energy but lacks certain essential vitamins, minerals or proteins.

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Stick to the roll in order to find more about food supply. Techniques, needed measures and new concepts will be reviewed in the next posts…