The Coming Food Crisis MISSION 2014 http www foreignpolicy com articles 2010 08 26 the coming food crisis page MISSION 2014 TEAMS Team 1 Economics Should speculation in food commodities be more tightly controlled Permitted Value of international Megafarms Finance and risk management insurance and disaster relief micro financing MISSION 2014 TEAMS Team 2 Data gathering and mining How do we monitor global agriculture Development of an international monitoring system for agriculture food distribution and nutrition Supply chains infrastructure distribution efficiency and reliability MISSION 2014 TEAM TEAM 3 Case studies I India and Africa lack of food production distribution infrastructure and poverty are huge problems how to best quantify and solve MISSION 2014 TEAMS Team 4 Case Studies II China has a very large and growing population and is facing strong demand for increased output from less and less land water issues fertilizer and pesticide issues what are solutions MISSION 2014 TEAMS Team 5 Fisheries Global fisheries are collapsing from over fishing aquaculture short term solution large managed marine preserves impact of climate change Projections How do we manage this global resource MISSION 2014 TEAMS Team 6 Agriculture I Food and Energy biofuels and bioenergy vs food production energy requirements for food production cost Agriculture II Food and water Crop choices irrigation and long term water supplies impact of climate change on availability of water Agriculture III Food and land use Monocultures vs biodiversity and habitat preservation Biotechnology genetic engineering transgenic and non transgenic forest to cropland conversion Team 7 MISSION 2014 TEAMS International policy and implementation trade aid poverty and hunger Millennium Development Goals and beyond United Nations Compliance MISSION 2014 TEAMS Plan for next 100 years be bold Interact with other teams MISSION 2014 Class Meeting Monday September 13 32 123 Each team gets five minutes to introduce themselves and make a statement about their topic Could be a few factoids or statement of major issues and or possible links with other teams Each team should appoint a temporary leader and 1 3 powerpoint slides should be sent to Seth before 2 PM on Monday sburgess mit edu
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