TCW unit 6

• Brundtland Report - AKA Our Common Future.
• Brundtland Report - meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future
• sustainable development - linked with climate change
• developing countries - most severely affected by climate change
• depredation caused by industrial and transportation toxins in the ground
• changes in global weather patterns lead to rise in sea levels and flooding in lowland areas
• overpopulation - too much population
• exhaustion of natural non-renewable resources
• waste disposal due to excessive amount of waste
• extinction of particular species due to destruction of million year-old ecosystems
• reduction of oxygen and increase in carbon dioxide due to deforestation
• depletion of ozone layer due to chlorofluorocarbons
• acid rains due to fossil fuel combustion
• water pollution from industrial and community waste residues
• urban sprawls that continue to expand as a city turns into a megalopolis
• pandemics from wastes mixing with drinking water
• alteration of food systems from genetic modifications in food production
• food security exists when all people at all times have access to adequate. safe, and nutritious food
• four dimensions of food security: FU-FAAS

  1. food access
  2. food use
  3. availability
  4. stability
• food access - adequate resources to acquire healthy diet
• food use - through adequate diet, clean water and health care to reach the state of a healthy well-being
• availability - produces either domestic or foreign import
• stability - sufficient food at all times
• global food security situation atm is still imbalanced
• food insecurity is to worsen due to rapid population growth
• demand for food will be greater than 60% than it it today to feed 9 billion people by 2050
• 194 million Indians are undernourished
• 15.2% of population of india are malnourished
• closest aspect of human life associated with food security is environment
• pollution through toxic chemicals has long term impact on environment