ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Crop Yield, Feedlot, Plant Breeding

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In canada, 48% of adults exceed their healthy weight and 14% are obese: calorie gap between rich and poor, as the rich have all of the food while the poor have a small fraction of it. Diseases of malnutrition: marasmus: severe deficit of energy, protein and carbohydrates, kwashiorkor: protein and micronutrient deficiency, diabetes, heart disease, obesity: excess fats, carbohydrates, calories, asia and africa are the continents with the highest levels of undernourishment and poverity. Why can"t we feed everyone: farmers today produce more than enough calories to feed everyone. Food security is constrained by the 5 a"s : availability (production, adequacy (quality, accessibility (storage; distribution infrastructure; civil unrest; social status, affordability (ability to import, buy, produce, subsidize, acceptability (cultural, religious) Agriculture post wwii: cheap energy, mechanization (tractors, combines; can work larger fields, large-scale irrigation (can farm marginal land) Inorganic fertilizers (byproducts of oil industry: knowledge of plant breeding (can breed high-yield, disease resistant crops)

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