Amazing facts and future in the World Food Day

The population of the world exceeds 8 billion as of 2024 and this number is expected to reach up to 2050. Increased population enhances pressure on food sources, climate change, food waste and non-recontaining agricultural applications further deepen this crisis.

What is food safety?][
According to the United Nations Food Safety Committee (CFS), food safety is defined as a situation where everyone has physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. However, in today’s world, millions of people are a fact that they lack this fundamental right. Every day about 25.000 people lose their life due to hunger and 854 million people are poor in the world. These figures are only worth of numbers Tags. On the back, social collapses, individual tragedies and signals that indicate greater crisis in the future. [

Coronavirus, battles and food crisis
Global events such as COVID-19 pandemic and Ukrainian-Russia war have seriously threatened food safety across the world. The number of people suffering from hunger in the first year of Pandem increased to 118 million, and this was the highest increase seen since 2006. On the other hand, influencing agricultural production and global food supply chains of the Ukrainian war, the food prices were increased rapidly.

Food name: Population increase and depletion of resources
] While the growth rate of the world population has slowed down, the current growth rate even creates a serious burden on food resources. It is seen to reach 10 billion of world population by 2050. This requires a large increase in food production. However, the current agricultural system is forced to meet this need. Even worse, the consumption habits of individuals in high-income countries have turned to intensive and environmentally damaging foods in terms of resource. Global food production system leads to depletion of natural resources by pushing our environmental limits.

Food waste: Is our solution hands?]
] Three of the food produced every year in the world, that is about 1.2 billion tons of waste. In a shocking way, the world struggling with hunger throws so much to eat. Today high income countries can reduce losses after harvest by 50 percent, the problem of insufficient nutrition of 63 million people can be solved. Reduce food waste, not only remove hunger, but also can stand out as one of the simplest ways to improve global food safety.
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Immune change and food safety[
Food safety is connected not only by population growth and waste, but also closely with climate change. Agricultural production directly with factors such as climate change, biological diversity loss, air pollution and extreme weather events. In particular, events such as drought, floods and overheats are decreasing the yield of agricultural products and threatens food supply. In addition to climate change, intensive agricultural applications also damage ecosystems. The use of fertilizers and pesticides negatively affects agricultural production by reducing soil efficiency. In the last 60 years, the result of human activities was 35 percent of the lands conducive to agriculture. This situation narrows the capacity of food production, which is already limited.

What happens when food safety is compromised?]
When global food safety is broken, the first and biggest effect will be hunger and scarcity. In particular, children in developing countries become more vulnerable to various diseases due to the weakening of immune systems due to insufficient nutrition. 5.7 million children face the danger of death due to hunger throughout the world. In economic sense, the production of food scarcity will return to stop, increase food prices, which will lead to decline, business losses and greater poverty in household income. Also, such crises can cause social and political instability. Poor countries for food safety of rich countries can also increase international voltages. [email protected]
[Solution: What to do to ensure food safety?]
]The most important way to overcome food safety crisis is to develop more sustainable agricultural applications and new technologies. At the same time, by establishing better food distribution systems, it is necessary to alleviate the hunger in the necessary areas. If at the level of policy, the regulation of food prices, the improvement of resource allocation and measures such as the more efficient use of agricultural lands. The European Union allocated a $ 1.65 billion fund to fight for increased food prices after the Ukrainian war. This fund will be used to support farmers and to bring 4 million hectares to the ground.

International cooperation and strong policies terms
The World Food Day not only reminds people who are starving, but also shows that food safety throughout the world should be passed into urgent movement to be sustainable. Converting global food system can help us create a sustainable future without exceeding the ecological limits by meeting everyone’s basic food needs. To reduce food waste, pass to more sustainable agricultural methods and provide a fair food distribution is the key to our future. The role of each individual is not possible but without international cooperation and strong policies.

Let's forget that access to food is not a privilege, but a fundamental human right.

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The Economist Global Food Security Index (2022)
]] Our World in Data
] Earth.org