HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Food Policy, World Trade Organization
30 Oct 2018
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Its sustainability implications and why food policy matters. Outline: global commodity dimensions of food (production, distribution, investment, finance, social and ecological sustainability in the world food economy the role of distance, policy and governance why food policy matters. Graph: indicators of global crop production intensification, 1961-2007. Fertilizer consumption has seen the steepest increase over the years, but has slowly become steady. Harvested land area has barely increase, remained quite steady and low. Cereal production, cereal yield and irrigated land area, have very slowly and steadily been increasing. Still remain only half that as fertilizer consumption (source: fao) Graph: number of farms and average farm size united states: 2009-2016. The number of farms in the united states for 2016 is estimated at 2. 06 million, down 8 thousand farms from 2015. Total land in farms, at 911 million acres, decreased 1 million acres from 2015. The average farm size for 2016 is 442 acres, up 1 acre from the previous year.
