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The worlds population is predicted to grow by more than 30 percent, but there are
already almost one billion people who do not have access to an adequate and safe food supply.
In the next 40 years, the world is supposed to gain over two billion people.
Half of the population growth is expected to be in Sub-Saharan Africa, and forty one
percent from Asia. Both of these areas are low income areas with low agricultural production.
Also, the consumption of meat, which is now about twenty pounds a person, is supposed to
double in the next forty years. These places like Africa and Asia will definitely not be able to
support themselves if these predictions are correct. In the future, foreign trade of food will
increase greatly. This is because the distribution of farmable ground is not equal to the
distribution of people. Some places like Australia , and North America have way more arable
land than they need based on their population.
To help attain the goal of doubling the agricultural output by 2050, the Global
Agricultural Productivity index was created. The GAP index measures the pace of productivity
that is needed to meet the goal. To close the gap of where we are based on where we need to be,
the Global Harvest Initiative has come up with five major areas to change. They plan to improve
the agriculture research funding, remove the trading barriers, strengthen the assistance programs,
embrace more science based technologies, and enhance private sector involvement in
agricultural and rural infastructure development.
We know that the plan is working because the countries Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, and
China are examples of emerging market countries that have had success in agricultural
development. Although each country has gone at it a different way, by improving in the five
major areas, they have all made a difference.
These countries have proven that closing the gap depends more on just helping at the
farm level, the entire food system needs an extra push. They have showed the unnecessary
burdens that the government