{"id":18199,"date":"2019-05-27T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/?p=18199"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:41:31","slug":"why-crop-yields-arent-the-right-fix-for-global-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igcat.org\/fr\/why-crop-yields-arent-the-right-fix-for-global-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Why crop yields aren\u2019t the right fix for global hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the University of Michigan\u2019s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative reviewed recent academic papers that discuss the United Nations goal of ending hunger and malnutrition worldwide by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>They reviewed recent papers from three areas\u2014ecology and agricultural sciences, nutrition and public health, and political economy and policy science\u2014that mentioned the UN zero-hunger goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZero hunger\u201d is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals that the UN adopted in 2015. The stated goal is to \u201cend hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture\u201d worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The two-pronged goal of tackling hunger and environmental sustainability is a tall order and will require \u201ctransformative political and economic change\u201d that reshapes the global food system, the team concludes in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.worlddev.2019.02.004\"><em>World Development<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, many scholars choose to focus narrowly on increasing crop yields to solve world hunger while ignoring other key elements of the food system, including crop types, the environmental impacts of farming, processing, and distribution, and who has access to food.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/crop-yields-global-hunger-2069332-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.futurity.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the University of Michigan\u2019s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative reviewed recent academic papers that discuss the United Nations goal of ending hunger and malnutrition worldwide by 2030. 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