FEEDING THE WORLD IN 2030: The Issue

Business Development Director (Agro & Eco Technologies ) India

Background:

We, personally believe that India is going to be world leader by 2030 and my belief is forcing me to visualize the food security and food safety issue in 2030 and being a part of this ecosystem and accepting the role of the responsible citizens of India, likely to be played for meeting the new challenges. With this assumptions and pledge to face the challenges successfully, we move further to look a view on the possible trends of the population growth which is going to be trouble shooter for the entire food & agriculture workers, who are getting ready to face these challenges or if not, at least discussing and worrying about the 2030.We are not the data analyst or interpreter but certainly based on the data generated by the agencies, responsible for formulating the strategy for the welfare of people and the environment of this planet. So, without going to the data analysis, we would try to address the issue and will try to come to a hypothesis having some strategy and road map ,which may not be absolute but certainly can be talked about and tested before being rejected.

If we see the FAO/World Bank and the reports, being generated and discussed about population trend, we see that world’s population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by the year 2030,9.7 billion by the year 2050 and 11.2 billion by the year 2100.It is also estimated that India will surpass China as the most populous country in next 7-8 years which will be the another issue to be addressed in advance before it comes and start knocking our doors. Various results of population estimates are pressing us hard to think about the new agenda of development for future and here we would like to focus on only one small but very important and critical for “life” of the entire eco-system consisting of all living creatures of both the kingdoms i.e. Animal and plant.

Now, let’s have a close view on 2030 with reference to agriculture and food ,India has been showing the capabilities of handling need based challenges during last few decades and after satisfying the country’s needs ,it is ready to feed the world but we need to think carefully and plan before accept the challenge and advance towards the challenge because as per the FAO’s estimates 2 billion new mouths will be waiting to be fed in 2030,so are we ready for it ?

Taking in to the consideration the mechanism of this planet’s management ,it seems that it is revolves around a system with a “auto mode on”, having a perfect software with a authorization and monitoring and correcting system inbuilt without having any opportunity to bounce back. so, under this situation, either we accept it and enjoy it or if we decide to be a participant than we must understand this and select a role without affecting the roles of others.

The Critical Components:

To address the food security and food safety issue, we need to know the components which are critical. If we take the play ground that is the land and the diversity which is related to various biotic and abiotic factors and our environment and as a whole dominate the whole eco-system whether at as a niche level or at a broader level.

Regarding land availability and diversity, let’s about two large countries having one of the largest land holding and the diversity i.e. India and China.China has about three times agriculture land than India but India has double of the arable land than China along with the available pre-requisites and natural resources to exploit it to meet the future challenges and take a driving role in meeting the challenges which are advancing fast towards us. But it is the only strength to be realized rather to keep in mind the threats as well as e.g.China is raising meat and fish and for which it requires many millions of grains, so this gap of grain availability versus demand should also need to be addressed.

The Solution:

We strongly believe that no problem exists without a solution, so why we worry for a solution.we just pull up our shocks and find the solution and match with the problems and enjoy the happiness and experience the realities of life for which we have descended on the earth.

How to do it?

It simply neds wish and will to do it,pre-requisites will automatically come the Supreme Commander of this universe also wants this to happen otherwise why many people are being inspired to think ahead.So,let’s make Nature/God as our partner and take a step.

Dr Satyen Yadav & Dr Ishan Yadav

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