- Title: Food Security & Climate Change
- Purpose: The purpose of my presentation was to educate my peers on a different, but equally important, aspect of the effects of climate change on our world's ability to feed itself. Though the greater solution to this issue is indeed in making our planet greener, I thought that focusing on this specific aspect of climate change helps to show how a hotter climate has the capability to affect the normalcy of so many different things humans depend on.
- Discussion Questions:
- Which “solution” to food insecurity do you agree with most?
- Do you think “neocolonialism” is a realistic outcome of nationscompeting for food security?
- Do you think that we will ever have a world where almosteveryone is food secure? Why or why not?
- Follow-Up Research:
- Video: EU's Discussion of Food Security Solutions
- UN Warns of Food 'Neocolonialism'
- Video: Food For Future (Part 1 of 3) -- Part 2 and 3 are easily accessible to the right of the video, initial focus on Australia.
- Additionally: the video the was already linked in my powerpoint: Nasa Earth Science Food Consumption Video
- Picture: This graph is created by a firm called maplecroft and it evaluate food security on 12 criteria. Some of these include: the nutritional and health status of populations, cereal production and imports, GDP, natural disasters, conflict and the effectiveness of government. Red countries are most food insecure, followed by orange, yellow and then green. There is not enough information to make conclusions about grey colored countries.
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