Science and food security

During the last 50 years, the concept of food security has undergone a process of considerable elaboration and refinement. Originally, emphasis was laid on producing adequate quantities of food grain to meet the needs of the growing human population. The acute food scarcity witnessed in the 1950s in China and in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Sahelian countries of Africa during the 1970s and 1980s underlined the urgency of stepping up food production. The rapid depletion of forest areas in many developing countries also signalled the need to achieve the desired increase in food production through enhanced productivity rather than an expansion of cultivated land.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Decent Work and Economic Growth