Sustainable Food Production

INTRODUCTION According to the Oxford Advanced Learners' English dictionary, sustainability means "keeping an effort going continuously, the ability to last out and keep from falling". Sustainability in food production can therefore be defined as the ability of food systems to keep production and distribution going continuously without any marked interruption. It implies the ability to sustain growth of food production to meet the demand for food in the future. Although some experts are confident that …

…parts of the world. At the same time many developing world governments keep food prices artificially low and fail to invest in the rural economy. By doing so, they discriminate against small farmers. Political reforms will count for just as much as agricultural innovation in the war on hunger. REFERENCES: Food Nutrition and People Elaine Grant and Pauline Fraser http://eco-web.com http://www.itdg.org/?id=food_production http://www.peopleandplanet.net/section.php