ITS EDUCATION ASIA ARTICLE

Food - security and sustainability

By Danny Harrington, MD ITS Education Asia

When it comes to food supply, security has always, indeed must always, take precedence. However, we are also now very much more aware that poor agricultural practice is unsustainable and probably feeds into longer-term concerns over food security. It would be the perfect example of the Brundtland report statement if the agricultural practices of today met the needs of the present but compromised the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The WTO and FAO are currently facing a perfect short-term storm with covid and Ukraine, but climate change is already here and adding to these woes with the more worrying characteristic of being long-term as well.

What to do? Well there is much wrangling, but this excellent article in IISD give a great picture.