Affordable+Food+for+All

= How do we make sure EVERYONE has enough nutritious food to grow and live a healthy life? =

=Neolithic Problem:= Around 10,000 years ago, our nomadic hunter-gatherer ancestors gathered in areas with abundant natural food supplies of fish, large mammals and wild plants. Human populations increased as a result. In time, their success created a new challenge: Human population growth and the depletion of super mammals along with climate change created a food crisis. They could no longer feed their growing populations by hunting and gathering. They gradually created a whole new way of feeding themselves: the agricultural revolution

=MP4U= Today, we have figured out how to feed millions of people through agriculture. As a result, our population has grown, we have depleted many natural resources and we are changing the climate of the earth. Demand for food is increasing at the same time climate change is threatening our food supplies.

Today, [|over 800 million people on earth do not have enough nutritious food] to eat even though we currently grow enough food for all.

Can we grow enough food to feed our growing population? What are people doing to help our growing population.

When the demand for food rises faster than the amount of food we produce, food prices rise. Are higher demands for less and less food causing prices to rise today? Who gets hit the most when food prices rise? What happens when prices rise too much?

See the food price increase infographic here to get the big picture.

Who is hurt by rising food prices?

Food Shortage Hotspots

Ironically, [|low income people are at a higher risk of obesity because healthy foods often cost more]. Read more here.

=Some Possible Innovations=
 * [|The World Food Program's Zero Hunger Challenge]
 * [|Do it yourself home gardens even in tiny city apartments]
 * [|Mini farms]