Food supply issues CASE STUDIES
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- Bangladesh - doesn't meet demand
- Managing food supply
- China - self-sufficient
- Food supplies managed
- State control of grain production
- Controlled by gov
- Farmers required to produce at least 50mil tonnes at gov prices
- 40mil tonnes sold to urban areas at low prices
- Incentives to grow grains
- Provinces that don't produce enough, have to buy from those with surplus
- Incentives include subsides, free education, tax exemptions and guaranteed min prices
- Modernisation of agriculture
- Improved transportation infrastructure
- Reduces losses during processing and distribution
- Priority of agricultural research and development to improve yields
- Protected domestic supplies
- Limit grain imports
- Stockpiling surplus grain, eg.g in 2008 had a reserve of 40% of its annual consumption
- Reducing grain export
- Advantages
- Modernisation is a long-term investment
- Prioritising self-sufficiency leaves less chance of disruption by external events
- Disadvantages
- Urbanisation is reducing the area of arable land
- Increaseing rural poverty due to growing high value food
- Reducing grains export can affect countries that rely on imports
- State control of grain production
- Food supplies managed
- China - self-sufficient
- Strategies to increase food production
- Investment in technology
- Subsidies and loans from gov to invest in Green Rev technologies
- Use of high yielding rice seeds, agrochemicals and irrigation
- Increased food produc from 11.7 to 23.1mil tonnes
- More investment into Appropriate technology solutions
- Free Market policies encourage food imports
- Removal of subsidies, quotas and reduced import tariffs by gov
- Essential to population
- Disadvantages
- Susceptibility to rising food prices e.g. rice price in 2008 put 4 mil in poverty
- Encouraged diversification
- Production of greater range of foods would improve health, nutrition and food security
- Goods can be exported to EU without quotas/duties
- Small+medium businesses supported by expertise and training projects
- Investment in infrastructure
- Maintaining and building roads improve transport of food
- Increasing electricity supply for irrigation pumps
- Building flood defences and improving water flow to reduce damage from floods
- Proving Food Aid where needed
- 'Food for Work' where people can work for food
- 'Food for Education' increases child education + decreases child labour
- Advantages
- Diversification benefits the economy
- F4E provides health + social benefits
- Disadvantages
- Some techs damage the environment
- All strategies are expensive
- Investment in technology
- Managing food supply
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