In: Nursing
List 20 factors that will ensure food security for when the world population reaches 10-12 billion people. Explain all factors
1. Increase agricultural energy efficiency and shift to non-fossil energy sources.
2.Adopt emissions-reducing rice management and varieties.
3.Reduce emissions from fertilizers by increasing nitrogen use efficiency
4.Reduce food loss and waste.
5.Achieve replacement-level fertility rates.
6.Avoid competition from bioenergy for food crops and land.
7.Reduce emissions from manure left on pasture.
8.Reduce emissions through improved manure management.
9.Shift to healthier, more sustainable diets.
10.Increase livestock and pasture productivity.
11.Improve crop breeding.
12.Improve soil and water management.
13.Adapt to climate change.
14.Plant existing cropland more frequently.
15.Limit inevitable cropland expansion to lands with low environmental opportunity costs.
16.Conserve and restore peatlands.
17.Reduce enteric fermentation through new technologies.
18.Improve wild fisheries management.
19.Link productivity gains with protection of natural ecosystems.
20.Reforest agricultural lands with little intensification potential.