The people behind food production are becoming less. The farmers of the world are aged and many young people are not interested in farming .
Yeah, there are enough farmers to produce food globally to feed the world. The major challenges are the conversion of agriculture land to non-agriculture purposes, also, climate change is a threat to food production globally.
It's a imp question. There are and there will be. Because as population is increasing, the food production rate also increasing via advanced scientific methods of farming. Earlier, there was no such a variety of crops available which have higher productivity, but in recent time there are so many varieties having high yield in small farmland. The conventional farming is replacing gradually by modern methods and all. There are some challenges like changes in climatic conditions, over use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides but there will never be scarcity of food items in future. Youngsters are also working to find out the natural substitute of synthetic and other harmful chemicals. Also to prepare such varieties of crops which can survive or grow in abnormal wheather conditions.
More than enough, I am afraid, considering the relatively high population growth and the high rate of technical progress.
That depends of the country and region. In Latin America, it does.
Hi Marcus Ramdwar, This is a challenging and mind-boggling question, as most agri/food producing and exporting countries especially in the global south are typically constrained by 'unsustainable agricultural production systems', characterised by: (a) rising number of elderly farmers in the existing farming community; (b) increasing feminisation of agriculture with women not having access to resources, technologies, credit support, etc; (c) younger generations not at all interested in conventional agri/ food production practices; etc. Added to these challenges are: (a) the increasing influence of climatic extremes; (b) declining size of farmlands; (c) increasing proportion of degraded farm lands, etc. What we need urgently is to have a global strategy to strengthen our agriculture production systems through infusing huge investments, including incentive systems so that we stay food secure in the future.. As a matter of fact, the ongoing pandemic Covid-19 also reminds us to be 'self-sufficient' regionally or locally, so that starvation deaths can be avoided in the eventualities of deficient food supplies due to lockdown or restrictions on trade in food and food products. With market prices for most agricultural commodities becoming highly volatile and even least remunerative, small and marginal farmers in many countries are forced to sell their farm lands (distress sale) and move out of agriculture either migrating to the urban places or remaining unemployed. This is a new challenge facing agriculture sector in many poor nations...
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