Indian farmer is pioneering a mobile solar plant to irrigate his crops. ingenious solar power.
This Indian farmer is pioneering a mobile solar plant to irrigate his crops.
Farmers around the world are finding ingenious ways to harness solar power. Stay tuned for more on UpLink's upcoming Food System Challenges:
Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger
We need to fundamentally transform our food systems to provide all humanity with affordable, nutritious, and healthy food within the limits of nature by 2030, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Multiple threats have pushed the global food system into shock in recent years.
Nearly 10% of the global population – an estimated 768 million people – were undernourished in 2020, and over 30% - 2.37 billion people – did not have access to adequate food, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets, and supply chains.
The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - a major global food supplier - on the prices of grains, cooking oil, fuel, and fertilizer has pushed ever more people into acute hunger, even those living many times zones away from active battlefields.
The challenge in numbers:
· 828 million people are hungry worldwide;
· 2.3 billion are moderately or severely food insecure;
· 3.1 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet;
· 149 million children are stunted, lacking appropriate nutrients for their cognitive and physical development with low height;
· 45 million children suffer wasting, children lacking sufficient food to live and develop and are of low weight;
· 700 million people would be displaced by drought by 2030;
· 90% of fishers are employed in small-scale fisheries, hit already by overfishing, acidification, plastic, pollution;
· 70% of freshwater withdrawal are used in food systems;
· 13.3% of the world’s food is lost between harvesting, transport, storage and processing (which all the phases emit CO2 emissions);
· 17% of the world’s food is wasted throughout retailers, markets, households and restaurants (which results in methane emissions);
· 1/5 of Earth’s land area is covered by deserts, and 1 billion people inhabit them;
· 75% of agriculture and food-technology investments occur in developed countries (unequal access in developing countries);
· 75% of the agricultural added value comes from developing countries;
· 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions are due to food systems;
· 25% of crop yields are threatened by climate change;
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