Global Food Production

       There are many problems with today’s global food production. Food production goes beyond what we would think, many cultures celebrate food in their religion, and they also celebrate agriculture. But there are ugly truths to today’s global food production. The four main problems with global food production today are,” An increasing population wants a more varied diet, but is trying to grow more food on less land with limited access to water, all the time facing increased costs for fertilizer, and fuel for storage and transport” (Global Food Security). Meaning the increasing population wants more foods to choose from and better food choices. They also want are trying to grow more food on little amount of land and with a scarce amount of water. Also they are trying to make all of these improvements with to food production, but with the increase cost of fertilizer it is going to difficult to do. We are also not including the fact that there is a fuel shortage and we need a lot of fuel to store and transport the food. These are only a few of the problems the world is facing when it comes to global food production.

            Food production in Belize is, “ agriculture continues to provide over 70 per cent of the country's total foreign exchange earnings, and employs almost a third of the total labor force. About half of the land used for agriculture is under pasture, with the remainder planted to a variety of permanent and annual crops. The traditional system of milpa (shifting cultivation) involves the annual clearing of new land for crop production but, with increasing land pressure, the practice is no longer sustainable and a greater number of farmers make permanent use of cleared land” (New Agriculturalist). Belize seems to be facing many of the same problems that everyone is facing, however they still continue to produce things like grapefruit, bananas, peppers, and oranges.

Figure 1: Pictured above is the rice production project in Belize.

Works Cited:

"Global Issues." - Global Food Security. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2014

"Country Profile- Belize." New Agriculturalist. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2014

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