The Global Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming

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The Global Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming
In spite of high demand for better farming practices towards producing quality and enough food to solve the problem of the food crisis globally, most farmers within developing countries still depend on the older methods of farming practices. In the process, these farmers produce less food products to people resulting to lack of food in the affected regions. Another factor that encourages the problem of food insecurity within developing countries is the fact that most of these farmers are small scale farmers (Weis, 2007). Therefore, with non-adoption of the modern farming practices, they continue to produce less food resulting poverty in the regions. In order for the problem of food insecurity to be solved, farmers globally must ensure that they adopt the modern farming methods and practices. These may include adoption of irrigation methods within arid and semi-arid areas (Weis, 2007). Additionally, farmers need to use various farming chemicals such as fertilizers so as to improve on the quality and quantity of their farm produce.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
It is important to understand that the era for cheap oil and food is over due to the presence of high prices imposed on food within the market today. As a result, most countries globally are faced with poverty as many people are unable to afford these products (Shiva, 2008). The cause of food insecurity in today's world has been caused by the industrial revolution that consumes most of the food produce in order to produce fuels. In producing fuels like fossils, results to globalization that in turn impact environment and climate negatively. Because both food and fuels remain major basic wants to human, countries in the world should come up with various ways of producing the t...