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MIT press published the revolutionary book The Limits of Growth , that reminded us of the urgent and fundamental need to manage our unparalleled growth and our often unreasonable demands . The Scarcity to Ecological Security presented us another point of view in different aspects of what are the damages happening to our society , to our world Let ‘s take a look at some pointers what the author would like us to understand and analyze

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Chapter 5 is focused on food policy . With our [banner_entry_middle]

population that has dramatically changed over the years , and it ‘s been increasing big time A lot of problems have risen that are accompanied by over population Some issues to look upon are poverty , malnutrition , and food scarcity The imbalance between demand and supply that is becoming mainly evident in relation to food and water security . In this chapter , the author described the ecological and sociopolitical drivers that influence the condition of clean water and adequate food supplies . Their analysis argued against overly simplistic interpretations of the resource problems confronting many societies

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A large numbers of people remained underfed because of poverty people failed to anticipate the current situation of shortages in the face of surpluses . On the other hand , there ‘s an increasing numbers of people in the wealthier countries who are overfed , who are suffering from different difficulties because of too much food consumption . It was also discussed that it is expected that the same economic inconsistency and trade barriers that have given rise to malnutrition in the past to persist into the future

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The big problem of poor countries is that they have not enough knowledge and help coming from their governments or outside institution in for them to deal with food shortages . While on industrialized countries it ‘s not easy to develop domestic farming . Why ? Because agricultural production in industrial countries are still heavily funded and many barriers remain to agricultural imports from less developed countries As a result , the poor and deeply indebted agrarian countries have limited capital with which to expand food production , little access to markets in the industrialized countries , and few sources of income with which to finance any essential food imports

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The goal of making globalization for the world ‘s poor is to open up agricultural markets and reducing subsidies to agriculture in industrial countries . This in return will have the greatest impact in fighting future starvation and malnutrition . The author described that hunger is not directly linked with overpopulation rather the problem lies with the accessibility of food . It was pointed out that there ‘s an adequate food supply but people weren ‘t able to afford or have access to it because of poverty . Poor people often lack access to land and other resources , thus they can ‘t produce and provide food for themselves

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Limited access to essential resources is not only an environmental issue , but there ‘s also a… [banner_entry_footer]