Some Indicative Food Security Issues

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Some Indicative Food Security Issues

• How does free trade help secure food supplies?
• What does increased biofuel production do for
  food security?
• Is it high prices or low prices for food which
  threaten food security?
• What is the yield gap, how does it arise and
  how might it be closed?
• Is globalisation (UK buying fresh green beans
  and roses from Kenya) good for food security?

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Some Indicative Food Security Issues

• Are peasant/subsistence farmers the key to future
  food security?
• Why might a 2nd Green Revolution not be enough?
• Is GM technology the key?
• Should private sector profits be the major
  driver?
• If not, then what and by whom?
• How far can environmental degradation damage in
  one place be offset by improvement elsewhere?
• What are the trade-offs between food security and
  environmental sustainability?
• Who should own the land?

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Some Indicative Food Security Issues

• What roles can Foreign Direct Investment play in
  improving food security for the poorest?
• Isnt the key problem lack of income, so economic
  growth is the only long term solution?
• Are better models of food production, consumption
  and trade needed?
• Or just better storage, transport and delivery
  systems?
• Why do we waste so much?
• Why do we eat so much meat?
• How might we be able to eat more fish?
• Are we doing enough if not who should be doing
  what?