March 2016: Food Supply

Watch the 3 videos below with your Chapter, and discuss. Please ensure your chapter comments on the Member Resource Site post by the end of the month! You may comment individually as members, or collectively as a chapter. The questions below are intended as guides: you do not need to answer all (or any) of the questions, so long as your comment is somehow related to the topic and materials. We encourage you to engage in discussion with one another in the comments section!

Orienting Discussion Questions:

  1. What challenges to different parts of the world face in regards to food supply, and how do these challenges conflict?
  2. How does climate change contribute to global food insecurity?
  3. How can we improve the issues of food insecurity and food waste?

Video 1: Climate-Smart Agriculture: Helping the World Produce More Food

Video 2: Why Poverty? Video: Waste

Video 3: Jeffrey Sachs: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

 

Key Points:

  • Sustainable Food Production is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Goal #12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
  • “The quest for food security can be the common thread that links the different challenges we face and helps build a sustainable future.” – José Graziano da Silva, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General