Food Security & Farming

• food security

  having enough food to feed a population
• factors affecting food security

  • increasing birth rate
  • diets changing in developed countries
  • new pests and pathogens
  • environmental changes
  • increasing costs of agricultural inputs
  • conflict
• overfishing is decreasing fish stocks
• ways fish stocks can be maintained

  • fishing quotas
  • net size
• fishing quotas

  • limits number and size of fish that can be caught
  • prevents certain species from being overfished
• net size

  • different limits on mesh size of fish net
  • reduce number of unwanted and discarded fish
• food production can be made efficient by

  • limiting movement of livestock
  • livestock can be factory farmed
  • animals can also be fed high protein food