What is it about?
The human population has surpassed seven billion and the number of hungry people has surpassed one billion. The traditional viewpoint is that food demand will increase due to population growth, leading to our annually increasing food production. Yet, numerically speaking, there is no global food shortage. Hunger is an economic issue, and food redistribution is seen as a strategy to ameliorate hunger among society's most vulnerable. The issue of population growth and density is addressed in the context of ecology. Food redistribution is described and endorsed as an approach that addresses hunger when and where it occurs.
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Why is it important?
Food production is increasing, the population is growing and more people are malnourished. This brief paper address the economics and ecology of these phenomena and makes clear how they are intertwined.
Perspectives
I hope this article sheds light on how current remedies to starvation and malnutrition exacerbate rather than ameliorate this tragic problem. Bringing an ecological perspective to the issue would lead in a positive direction to this and other human-driven concerns.
Dr Russell P Hopfenberg
Duke University
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This page is a summary of: Population Density and Redistribution of Food Resources, January 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-100596-5.22379-2.
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