18/10/2022 - Agriculture

KEY POINTS

·        It is actually the foundation day of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations that was set up in 1945.

·        The global population at that time was a little less than 2.5 billion and increasing at an annual rate of about 1.9%per annum.

·        Access to food at affordable prices still remains a challenge for a substantial segment of humanity, which leads to malnutrition.

·        Interestingly, while agriculture gets severely impacted by climate change, it also is the cause behind 28% of the global green house gas (GHG) emissions, contributing to global warming.

·        But changing the behaviour of people can not be achieved with a business as usual approach, even when you develop new technologies.

·        One has to work on policies that incentivise people to change the way of doing things, be it agriculture or non-agriculture operations.

·        Currently, it hovers around 0.6% of agri-GDP for both the Centre and the states combined; this needs to be a minimum of 1%, but desirably anywhere between 1.5-2%, of agri-GDP.

·        This World Food Day, let us commit to give our best to this planet as well as people’s basic need of food. At ICRIER, we are bringing out our October issue Af-TAB on Synergising food and nutritional security with environment.

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