Zero Hunger

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

[New] Report made available to SHARPEDGENews Online, showed that in 2015 a staggering sum of $4.6 billion was reported to have been made from investments in digital agriculture and that output rate from investment is likely to increase by 60% by 2030.
[New] Although production reached near-record levels in Russia, Ukrainian production suffered significantly from drought, falling 3.67 million mt year on year to a projected 25.50 million mt for the 2020-21 harvest, according to the USDA's December World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.
[New] Strong demand exists from several countries as they look to stockpile to ensure food security and because of concerns over 2021 Russian winter wheat production due to weather risks.
[New] Over the coming decades, the agricultural food system will undergo an accelerated transformation to provide access to enough food for a growing world population.
[New] The economic value of South Asia's agribusiness is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, which is about twice the current value.
[New] Demand for plant-based meat in China and Thailand is forecasted to increase by 200% over the next five years, driven by consumer values around health, taste and sustainability.
[New] In a set of recommendations made by the European Commission to help Portugal elaborate a national strategic plan under the Common Agricultural Policy for 2021-2027, Brussels stressed that biodiversity preservation remains a challenge in Portugal.
[New] Regenerative agriculture will become more mainstream in 2021 as both consumers and companies realize we have got to find a way to tackle global emissions in the coming decade.
[New] The GDP in monetary value from the agriculture, mining, and quarrying sector will be decreased by $755.01 to $1539.79 million in India for shorter to longer containment.
Recently approved by the United States Department of Agriculture and Colombia's Agricultural Institute, blight-resistant rice is expected to have a global impact.
Europe has the second largest cropland area with 20% of the global total and is likely to experience the greatest impact of agricultural drought, with almost half of it likely to be under significant drought by 2050.
Opportunities to create value and generate profitability exist if producers strategically invest in regenerative agriculture and diversifying revenue streams: If Indonesian palm oil companies invest sustainably, climate transitions could boost the palm oil industry's value by US$ 9 billion.
Establishing market infrastructure for monitoring, reporting and verifying agricultural carbon credits would cost 3.8 billion euros for the agriculture sector in 2030.
The CCC has been clear that, in order to achieve net zero by 2050, GGRs will be necessary to balance residual emissions from some of the most difficult to decarbonise sectors, such as parts of the agriculture and aviation sectors.
The net zero emissions target by 2050 was a bit more complicated because Australia could still be producing some emissions - such as methane in the agricultural sector - but they would have to be offset elsewhere.
Additional goals set by Unilever include halving food waste in its direct global operations from factory to shelf by 2025, five years earlier than previously planned, and doubling the number of products delivering positive nutrition globally by 2025.
A recent report from Fortune Business Insights predicts the global agricultural drone market to reach $3.7 billion in value by 2027, at a compound annual growth rate of over 18%.
To end hunger by 2030, additional investments in agriculture amounting to US$ 265 billion a year between 2016 and 2030 will be required at the global level, US$ 41 billion of which should be committed to social protection to reach the poorest in rural areas.
Given that the phase - one trade deal is a two-year deal, with the value of exports set to pick up over the second year to US$43.6bn, Chinese buying could very well continue to support a number of agricultural markets.
Drought and damaging hot spells cause reductions in crop duration periods, reducing agricultural yields so that, by 2050, almost 40% of global cropland could be exposed to significant drought each year - far higher than the nine per cent exposed historically.
A hunger relief non-profit, the US is seeing record levels of child hunger, and as many as 17 million children will experience food insecurity in 2020 alone.
In reflecting on the 2020 year, the agriculture industry will be best remembered for being one of the most resilient industries in the face of global shutdowns.
Australian investment in oration give rise to a variety of new income streams, which could boost smallholder farmers' incomes, and restoring a mere 12% of the world's degraded agricultural land could feed 200 million people by 2030, while also strengthening climate resilience and reducing emissions.

Last updated: 10 January 2021

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