• Food sources:

o Plants(Agriculture)
o Animals(Animal husbandry and fisheries)
• Minimum dietary requirement :1825 cal/person
per day on an average
 Food resources

•Estimated that out of •Major domesticated •Fish and seafood

about 2,50,000 species animals used as food contributes 17
of plants, only about source by human million metric
3,000 have been tried beings are ‘ruminants’ tonnes of high
as agricultural crops •15 plants and 8 quality protein to
• 300 are grown for food animals supply 90% of provide balance
and only 100 are used our food diet to the world
on a large scale
•66% of people eat
mainly rice, wheat, and
corn (grains)
• practiced by 2.7 people • uses large amounts of
on earth fossil fuel energy, water,
– Traditional subsistence commercial fertilizers and
agriculture-produce pesticides to produce
enough food to stay huge quantities of single
alive crops or livestock animals
– Traditional Intensive for sale
agriculture-farmers
increase various
inputs to get a higher
yield
 started in 1965 with the first introduction of High Yielding
Variety (HYV) seeds in Indian agriculture coupled with
better and efficient irrigation correct use of fertilizers to
boost the crop
 result was to make India self-sufficient when it came to
food grains.
 three basic elements in the method of the Green Revolution
 Continuing expansion of farming areas
 Double-cropping in the existing farmland
 Using seeds with improved genetics
 Overpopulation

Natural Imbalanced
calamities development
Unsustainable
agricultural Lack of farmers’
practices and workers’
rights
Over Depletion in
exploitation of food granary
Food wastage
environment

Deficiency of
water
Increased Bio-
fuel production
Degradation of
cropland
 • Population projection (Lutz • The global food system is
& Samir 2010) experiencing:
World grain production struggling -
shortfall around 120 million metric tonnes
(2009)
95%
12B
60% Demand increasing – we need to boost
8B 20% production by about 650 m mt by now and
2023
4B
We would need additional 540 million acres
without change in yield

2000 2050 2100 Lack of sustainability, price volatility, and

increasing population are problems (
Around 0.8 b people are hungry. expected over 9 b by 2050)
People will be richer and demand
higher quality diet
 About 15
percent of India 21 % of the
is population lives
undernourished on less than
$1.90 per day
3,000 children Around 30
die every day percent of
One-third of from hunger newborns die
food gets lost from lack of
or wasted nutrition

India is not
poor, yet
hunger
remains an
issue
India ranks
97th in
addressing
hunger

Agriculture
• New machines
• Eco-friendly technologies
• Improved hybrid varieties
• Organic fertilizers
and pesticides
• Improved irrigation
methods
• Mixed agriculture
Livestock and
Fisheries
• Hybridisation techniques
• Improved sanitary
conditions
• Disease control
• Maintaining surroundings
and water bodies neat
Working on new avenues
More forest goods
Medicines , for instance
Unfamiliar crops such as Nagli
• Drip irrigation
• Terrace farming
• Roof top farming/Garden farming
• Mixed farming