Analysis of Food Production, Scarcity, and Sustainability

This report provides an analysis of food production, population dynamics, and resource scarcity, drawing on a lecture that emphasizes the critical role of food for all living beings. The speaker highlights the challenges posed by rapid population growth and its impact on resource consumption, advocating for a 'food-waste-to-fuel-and-fertilizer-and-food' formula to promote sustainable practices. The report discusses the scarcity model, its causes, and the historical context of agriculture and scarcity, including poor farming practices. It examines the consequences of food scarcity, such as political manipulation, famine, war, and death, while also referencing the speaker's personal experience with the topic. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of enlightened approaches to food production to mitigate scarcity and ensure food security for all.

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The speaker gave a lecture majorly on food production, population and how they relate.
In his explanation, he said that food is very essential to all creatures on earth and must be given
priority as no one can survive without food. The speaker further says that the world population is
growing too fast and as it grows the consumption of resources that support life also takes place
faster than it is regenerated (Cantor, 2018).
In his speech, the speaker argues that food consumption ought to go hand in hand with
food production thus the use 'food-waste-to-fuel-and-fertilizer-and –food' formula that entails
nitrogen, potassium, micronutrients, phosphorous and carbon that is termed as waste in cities
being changed to food through bio digestion, micro-livestock, and farming. He continued by
saying those safe and harmless ways of growing the economy the individuals should be taken
into consideration so as to improve the environment which will finally help in the growth of new
globes (Paul Dorosh, 2013).
The speaker came up with an idea on the scarcity model which he gave an explanation that this
model just gives an assumption that human wants and needs are unlimited and yet we are in the
world of limited resources. This assumption means that the world has inadequate production
resources to sustain endless human needs and wants.
According to his speech, he was trying to explain some of the major causes of scarcity in
food production where he said that less supply of water can really affect the food productivity in
that people from dry areas normally feel threatened by scarcity of food while on the other hand
people that come from areas with steady water supply do not get threatened by food scarcity
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2018). The speaker relates to history

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by noting that Agriculture and scarcity are the Jekyll and skin of long and often mobilized march
of development. He explains that poor farm practices such as mono-cropping and overstocking
of animals lead to loss of nutrients in the soil which eventually causes food scarcity due to low
production.
The speaker noted that food scarcity leads to the political class manipulating the mass
which is attained via the mass becoming dependent on the politicians through the handouts that
they dish out. It also leads to the famine which is equated to lack of food. It also causes war
which is due to the scramble of the little resources that are available. Scarcity also leads to death
which is a result of famine, conquest, and war.
The speaker started by saying that the idea of food production and scarcity came into
conception in 1968 when he was just six years old as he was watching a movie and through a
book called, `` The Population Bomb.’’ It gave the idea to explore this topic later in his life.
In conclusion, the speaker says that food is a very essential thing to all the creatures and
nobody can survive without it and as much as there is scarcity of food against the unlimited
human wants and need, people should be enlightened on better ways of food production so as to
prevent scarcity (Gurbir S. Bhullar, 2012).

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References
Cantor, J. M. (2018). Progress in Food Engineering Research and Development. Los Angeles: Nova
Publishers.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, U. N. (2018). The State of Food Security and
Nutrition in the World 2018: Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition. Sydney:
Food & Agriculture Org.
Gurbir S. Bhullar, N. K. (2012). Agricultural Sustainability: Progress and Prospects in Crop Research.
Chicago: Academic Press.
Paul Dorosh, S. R. (2013). Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges. manchester:
University of Pennsylvania Press.