Global Sustainability Issue

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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE
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Sustainability is a complicated idea. Similarly, sustainable growth is described as a development
that satisfies the contemporary needs without concession of the capability of the coming cohorts
to fulfill their needs (Rozier, 2016, p. 119). In other perspectives, it has been described as the
physical growth and improvement and managerial functioning practices that fulfill the
contemporary needs of the users without compromising the ability of the future age bracket or
generations to meet their own needs. Therefore, sustainable activities must sustain the
environment, human, and economic health and life. In general, it is the capacity to endure.
There are several global sustainability issues; however, in this context, food security will be
given consideration as the major sustainability issue.
1. One Important sustainability issue of global significance
Food security: It is a condition where all family members, every time, have access to sufficient
food for an energetic and healthy life.
Q2
Food security and environmental sustainability are both major strategies in the current global
arena. Several environmental elements have been implicated in food security. These elements
include;
a) Natural disasters such as drought and famines
Natural disasters such as drought and floods have detrimental effects on food production. In
nations where agriculture contributes to a quarter of the GDP, there is the likelihood that when
such disasters strike and last longer than expected, hunger will be experienced due to food
shortage (Garnett, 2014, p. 13).

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b) Climate change- affects food supply and access as a result of the loss of farmland,
fluctuating food prices, as well as other food, uses issues. The element aggravates the
threats of food shortage
 Intense weather events
Weather change raises the occurrence and concentration of various issues such as droughts and
downpour as well as rainstorm. The occurrence has disadvantage effect on the source of revenue
and food security. Such disasters often have the prospective to cause destruction on harvest,
significant road and rail network, and major society resources, consequently worsening sources
of revenue and intensifying poverty (Chowdhury et al., 2017, p. 950).
 Long-standing and regular climate risks: Affects the volume and consistency of water
accessible and adjust patterns of flood and drought.
c) Soil degradation (Salinization through heavy rains, erosion, and soil pollution)
Productive land supports food security through constant food production. When there is
degradation, the reduction or loss of economic productive or biological capacity is experienced
on the land (Klomp & Hoogezand, 2018, p. 412). Degradation is caused by the human activities
and worsened by the natural processes, and overblown by the effects of climate change and
biodiversity hammering. Continuous land degradation over a given time and decrease of
production in dry lands could result in a tremendous case of degradation or desertification (Bee,
2012, p. 127). Land degradation influences the importance of land which is frequently
determined by its ability to offer goods, such as food, fuel, and fiber.

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Q3
The social elements of food security are systems, issues or structures that support or influence
the capacity of the contemporary and future cohorts to generate healthy and livable communities
or society. Most social elements of food security as an issue of sustainability reflect casual
processes, and they can vary broadly depending on time frame and other factors (Carty et al.,
2017, p. 143). The three main critical social elements include;
a) Levels of income in among the population within the society, wealth and distributional
equity in various communities.
b) Wider indicators of quality of life, for instance, working status or environment, job
satisfaction and freedom to pursue lifestyle preferences
c) Community health
All the elements mentioned above contributes to the lack of food, alleviating food insecurity is
an indication of alleviating poverty. Lack of food or availability of food may be caused by social
and cultural practices that maintain multiple concepts concerning how food should be
categorized. The systems of groupings or categorization may, in turn, or invoked when making
decisions regarding which food to be grown. Social elements constitute to processes that create
sustainable, successful places that improve health, through comprehending what the population
needs from the places they live and work (Figueiredo et al., 2016).
Q4
Economic elements are set of elementary information that influences food security or food
production. Several elements should be taken into account when determining the current and