SUSTAINING FOOD AND RESILIENT ECOSYSTEMS

1 what problem are you committed to solving?

The problems and resources are concentrated in the cities.

(A) food insecurity can have detrimental impacts of both physical and mental well being of a person especially a child.

(B) problem of hunger

2 what solution are proposing?

- nutrition assistance

- the role of food aid

- agricultural productivity

3 how could your solution positively change lives if it was scaled globally?

- resilience to climate change and productivity

- food production

- renovating the meat industry

Smart Integration of Technology can help create sustainable urban food ecosystems (UFES) for the rapidly expanding urban Population in the Developing World.  Technology, especially Recent advances in digital - enabled devices based on internet connectivity, are Essential for building UFEs at a time when's food Production is increasingly Focus on the Global Scale by the Availability of Land, Water, and Energy.  By 2050, two - thirds of the world Will be urban - and the largest of the net World Population Growth Will occur in urban Regions in the Developing World.  The food crisis is looming, with the Developing World ill - prepared to sustainably feed itself.  We identify 12 innovative Technology platforms to Advance the UFEs of the Developing World: (1) connectivity - information delivery and digital Technology platforms;  (2) urbanized services;  (3) precision Agriculture (GPS, IoT - Internet of things, Al - Artificial Intelligence, sensing Technology);  (4) discovered - controlled Environment Agriculture, including Portrait farms;  (5) block chain for Greater Transparency, food safety, and Identification;  (6) nanotechnology and advanced materials: (7  ) 3 - D Printing / additive manufacturing;  and (8) Integration of new tech to Scale - up underutilized, existing Technologies.  

Today, over 1.3 billion people live on degraded agricultural land, and most vulnerable populations tend to lack secure access to land as well as control over land's resources. Migration has long been one of the most important livelihood strategies available to households to cope with environmental change and relieve population pressure from dry lands unable to cope with additional stress. Due to the consideration that migration may be motivated by better employment opportunities, ensuring sustainable land management and ecosystem Restoration compatible with the creation of decent and attractive employment opportunities is critical in order to reduce and avoid DLDD-related forced migration. Taking into account these different dimensions, it is important to acknowledge that existing migration dynamics are modified or exacerbated by environmental degradation, rather than unique y caused by it. If no urgent actions are taken to protect, restore and rehabilitate vital land resources, desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) will increase poverty and inequality, leaving many with few other options than to embark on perilous out-migration journeys Page | 86 Two greatest environmental concern's Land degradation is the reduction or lass in the capacity of soil and land resources to produce food, fodder and other ecosystems services, and desertification is land degradation that occurs in dry lands. It d rect y impacts the health and livelihoods of an estimated 1.5 billion people globally. Additional pressure comes from the need to feed a growing global population of over 7 billion requiring food to be produced fast, cheaply and in large quantities. However, land degradation need not be permanent. Restoration will not be cheap, but the costs of inaction will be even higher. 10) Fragile ecosystems Ecosystems As prec pitation patterns change, the potential for having too little or too much ecosystems within and near streams, lakes, and wetlands. In the natural environment, water sustains crucial habitat for plants and animals precipitation patterns change, the potential for having too little or too much water threatens ecosystems within and near streams, lakes, and wetlands. 

According to the Brookings Institute, up to 60 percent of jobs on the African continent come from farming, and food production in sub-Saharan Africa will need to increase by 60 percent over the next 15 years to feed the region's growing population. Some of the biggest challenges farmers face are being solved by surprisingly simple technologies. 2Kuze, funded by the Gates Foundation and created by MasterCard, is a mobile platform that connects smallholder farmers to buyers and banks. Besides facilitating payments in a simple and secure way, the platform helps farmers align their supply with market demand, bringing the dual benefits of upping farmers' incomes while cutting consumer prices-and it's all done through text messages. Similarly, We farm is a digital network that lets farmers ask each other questions and access crowd-sourced information through text messages. Over 735,000 farmers are registered for the service, and it's free to use. Healthcare From blood-delivering drones to robot pharmacists, tech is giving healthcare a boost in some of the places that need it most. Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg houses South Africa's busiest HIV clinic. Far above its capacity, the hospital started using a robotic pharmacy system, which reduced prescription errors and cut patients' wait times from over 4 hours to under 20 minutes. Healthcare in the western world is still largely reactive rather than proactive: we wait until someone's sick to cure them, and rather than data-driven personalized care, we take a one- medication-fits-all approach. African communities without established healthcare systems have their own set of problems-far more challenging than those we're facing in the US or Europe-but they also have the chance to build more effective and equitable health systems from the get-go. Rwanda is a prime example, boasting some of the most impressive health statistics on the continent: 90 percent of the population has health insurance, more than 90 percent of HIV patients are on  medication, and 93 percent of children receive vaccinations.

China's Agricultural Productivity Imperative The enormity and complexity of the challenges facing China's agriculture and food system are difficult to fully grasp. Two decades ago, the Chinese middle class numbered just 2.5 million people. That number has increased by more than 100 times today.1 The middle class in China is expected to grow even further, reaching 950 million by 2030, roughly three times the current population of the United States. A Chinese family enjoys a leisurely visit to a park in the Cixi wetlands in Zhejiang Province. 

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