will food shortage be the cataylst for a new world war?

[Scottyboi]

Around 1 billion people on the planet are malnourished already.



Not so sure, maybe in the future that will be the case, but right now the World produces enough food to supply the calories needed by the global population, true starvation tends to be relatively rare, and when it happens, it's a distribution problem. I can't remember the figure but the vast, vast majority of famine occurs in war torn countries, basically because that makes aid pretty inaccesible and growing your own food problematic.

The big problem currently is not a lack of food, it's a lack of the nutrition in that food, vitamin and protein deficiencies etc.

The solution to that, would be GM, and there's already crops like golden rice been developed, although i haven't read up to much on it, not sure how accesible the vitamin is to the body when it's articifically expressed in crops, but it shows it's possible.

The current genetic potential of our major crops through traditional breeding is basically exhausted, so without GM, yield is probably only going to down from now on(through salinification of soil etc).

The heart of the problem is the lack of water.

No water, no crops. No crops, no meat.

Well aslong as i am ok im not too fussed :)

 

[twinkletoes]

The way forward is to eat less meat.

The way forward, in combating world hunger, is to pick and choose what food we eat?

I'm not sure I understand your argument.

It all stems from the availablity of water.

The amounts of water to create one kilo of meat are a lot higher than to create one kilo of vegetables.

 

[twinkletoes]

The heart of the problem is the lack of water.

No water, no crops. No crops, no meat.

Well aslong as i am ok im not too fussed :)

This is a global problem so nobody can avoid it.

 

[Maineblue]

Just start eating each other, starting with the homeless and unemployed, two birds one stone...having said that I can't see tramps being very tasty!