Wolfgang Korsus Dipl.-Ing. NT, Astrophysiker
Chapter 333/4
It’s ringing loudly in my ears… A day has passed:
despite the totalized world mortality rate, senseless wars and increasing murder rates !
MORE PEOPLE : does MORE FOOD also mean MORE HUNGER?
With the Neolithic revolution around 10,000 years ago, man began to improve the security of his food supplies quite peacefully and conscientiously with agriculture and animal husbandry. Those who had a secure food supply over a longer period of time were a friend to a faster growing population. From the first simple scraper plough, around 5,000 BC, to the Green Revolution, the beginning of high-performance agriculture in the 1960s, man has continued to optimize agriculture over the millennia technologically, and in the last 100 years chemically and biologically, and what few people want to believe has also partially ruined it. This means that more than 40 percent of the planet’s land surface is already used for agriculture today.
To go into more detail…. half of this area is used for the cultivation of cereals such as maize, wheat and rice alone. Because in the last 50 years, we have more than tripled the global production of cereals…..not yet known ‚…. no problem…moving on, in 2013, according to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), 2.78 billion !!!! tons of grain were harvested. Who was responsible for this?
The world’s 20 largest grain producers together harvested almost 80 percent of the global total (as of 2013). COUNTRY QUANTITY IN TONS :
1 People’s Republic of China 551,147,000
2 USA 436,553,678
3 India 293,940,000
4 Brazil 101,072,852
5 Russia 90,379,448
6 Indonesia 89,791,562
7 France 67,518,281
8 Canada 66,372,400
9 Ukraine 63,129,260
10 Bangladesh 55,008,580 ….13 Germany 47,757,100
WORLD total therefore: 2,780,666,068 2.7 billion tons of grain!
‼ ‼ ‼ now the disgusting news (am VEGETARIAN) 1.5 billion cows, 1 billion pigs more than 20 billion chickens were murdered, i.e. torn from their lives by human hands. Also 70 million tons of apples, about twice as many tons of citrus fruits, plus billions of tons of vegetables and salads and ‼ ‼ ‼ 140 million tons of fish, half of it caught in the oceans, the other half fattened in aquacultures with lots of chemicals…..then pulled out; now, by the way……plus millions and billions of bananas, coconuts, kiwis, strawberries and many other delicacies that are not even listed here-all this together would provide a richly laid table for EVERY person, EVERY day.
But it’s just a bad dream…. the problem of hunger cannot be eradicated from the world: 800 million people went hungry in 2015, roughly one in nine of the world’s inhabitants. Twice as many are malnourished or highly malnourished. Nevertheless: I say there are ten million !!!! fewer starving people than in 2014 and almost 50 million fewer than in 2013, because numerous studies have shown that the causes of world hunger are not a lack of production, but unfair, sloppy distribution and total human error. Not only is around 1.3 billion tons of food thrown away every year according to the UN, but many well-fed people are also aware of this. The 300 million tons destroyed annually in the industrialized nations alone would be enough to provide all starving people with sufficient food !!!!
Many scientists have expressed their opinions and warnings about the risks, challenges and opportunities of feeding the world’s population in the 21st century. However, the political loudmouths and nonsense-mongers worldwide are holding back.
……my. Tip: check them daily, ……uninterrupted !
…. little Germany has something: ….. is the name of Prof. Dr. Franz-Theo Gottwald, who has been Chairman of the Schweisfurth Foundation in Munich since 1988. As an honorary professor for agricultural and nutritional ethics, he researches and teaches at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He advises ministries on the design of policy areas relating to the environment, agriculture and the food industry as well as consumer protection, and companies on sustainability management issues…interesting !
….and another organization
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the world’s largest and oldest specialized agency of the United Nations with around 3,400 employees.
The organization was founded in October 1945 in Quebec, Canada, and has been based in Rome since 1951. Currently, 194 countries and the European Community (EU) are members of the FAO.By definition of the FAO As the UN’s specialized agency for food and agriculture, the FAO provides an important forum for the exchange of knowledge needed for policy advice to member countries and other UN agencies. The FAO thus plays an important role in the provision of so-called „global public goods“. The organization’s aim is to combat HUNGER worldwide and improve the standard of living of people in rural areas in particular. Food security is achieved when all people have access to sufficient, safe and healthy food at all times.
Despite extensive measures to create food security
the world today is a long way from providing sufficient healthy food for all people at all times. The causes of hunger are complex and largely the result of political, economic and environmental misconduct by people and almost all governments. The world’s population could theoretically be overfed if the available food were properly distributed.
By 2050, the world population will have grown to nine billion people. The FAO predicts that under current developments (soil degradation, water scarcity, climate change, loss of biodiversity), food production on the remaining land will have to increase by 70 percent if the world of tomorrow is to be fed. The population is growing, especially in developing countries. This does not necessarily have to lead to more hunger. In many developing countries, however, natural resources and the supply of jobs are not keeping pace, meaning that population growth is becoming a hunger risk. As a result of global population growth, the available arable land per capita is shrinking. Although the industrialization of agriculture has led to an enormous increase in yields in recent decades, the price is high. Monoculture cultivation and the excessive use of fertilizers, pesticides and heavy agricultural machinery have led to a worldwide decline in soil quality, soil compaction, erosion and the loss of agrobiodiversity. Global agriculture is at a turning point. „Business as usual“ is no longer an option, as the World Agriculture Report put it a few years ago. Instead, agriculture and the food industry will have to contend with resource scarcity in the future, the consequences of which will jeopardize food security in the long term. The earth’s vital resources, namely water, soil and biodiversity, are under acute threat in many places. Combine harvesters march! Monocultures enable the use of large machinery.
It goes further…