The document presents on the topic of global food sustainability. It discusses major threats like hunger and food wastage. The goal is achieving global food sustainability through food quality, safety, and environmental security. It proposes ways to achieve sustainability like efficiency oriented practices, demand restraint, and food system transformation with a change in mindset. This involves increasing productivity, reducing carbon footprint, empowering farmers, and increasing consumption of locally available food through various farming techniques.

1. Presented by :
Jeevan Upreti
M.Tech (FPOM-Ist Yr.)
Roll No:614004
NIFTEM
Global Food Sustainability
Need Of the Hour!!

2. LAYOUT OF THE PRESENTATION
• Introduction
• Major threats
• Goal
• How can we achieve Food Sustainability?
• Brief discussion on India’s 2013 Food Security Bill

3. SUSTAINABILITY???

4. THE FOREMOST CHALLENGE!!!!!
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5. GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX
Figure 2: [Source: GHI, The challenge of Hidden Hunger (Oct, 2014) IFPRI]

6. Figure 3 : [Source: FAO]

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Agriculture
Production
Postharvest
handling and
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Processing Distribution Consumption
FOOD WASTAGE WORLD OVER(MILLION TONNES )
Figure 4: [Source : IFRI(Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, 2014)]

8. WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
Global Food
Sustainability
Food Quality
Food Safety
Environment
Security

9. HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE FOOD SUSTAINABILITY ?
Efficiency
Oriented
Demand
Restraint
Food System
Transformation
CHANGE OF MINDSET

10. EFFICIENCY ORIENTED
• Increasing productivity with same available land and reducing carbon foot
prints.
• Farmer empowerment !!
 Diversified farming : crop rotation
mulching, organic recycling
of farm waste, drip irrigation etc.
 Zero-tillage farming
Photo : Mr. Joji P. Daniel, in Chittarickal village,
Distt. Kasaragod ,Kerala, India

11.  Contract farming: A new lease of
life for the farmers
Photo: Arabind Das, COO
Godrej Tyson Foods, India
• Photo : Mondelez India Food Pvt. Ltd
( Tamil Nadu , India )

12. DEMAND RESTRAINT
• Focus on the consumption behavior of the consumers
• Need to define optimal level of meat and dairy consumption
Micro
environment
20%
60%
20%
Production Consumption Distribution
Macro
environment
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13. FOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
• Fairer terms of food trade i.e. Capacity Building “ Freedom to Self –
Determine”
AFMC (India) needs reforms!!
Facilities at Farm Gate can help farmers save transportation charge
Platform to sale fruits and vegetables directly to the consumer
• Increase consumption of locally available food
• Energy efficient food supply chain i.e. use of biofuels for transportation of food
items

14. Each stage of distribution system shows emission
of CO2 through transportation, refining etc.
The growing feed stock absorbs sufficient amount of
CO2.
[Source: Beginner’s Guide to Aviation Biofuels]

15. JATROPHA FAILED!! IS ALGAE A SOLUTION ?
• Yield : 19000 – 57000 litre oil per acre
• Start yielding from 2-3 days of plantation
• Favorable temperature : 20 to 30 degree centigrade
• Can be grown in salty water, waste water and non arable land
• In India petroleum product consumption is about 120 million tonnes per year and
only 2-3% agriculture land if used can make the country self sufficient in it’s fuel
demand [Source: IGREC, India]
• Combustion of algae biofuel instead of conventional one can reduce GHG emission
by 40 %

16. • Route Optimization
Government Needs to speed
up National Highway Projects
Already Delayed by 5 Years!!!

17. HOW MUCH SUSTAINABLE THIS MODEL CAN BE?
INDUSTRY
C02 EMISSION
EFFLUENTS
ETP
• Directing the C02 toward algae
cultivation facility
• Photo bioreactor
(Setup in controlled environment)
• Treated water can be used
for growing algae

18. VERTICAL FARMING
OVERCOME SOILAND SPACE CONSTRAINTS
Why this ?
• The global food crises has forced us to relook at the traditional agriculture
practices
• If we want to feed 3.5 billion people living in the cities today we will be
requiring land, double the land mass of South-America
• In New York City around 8 million people consume food that will take the whole
state of Virginia in land mass to grow
• As most of the disease-producing microbes come from the soil, the use of
pesticides would be minimised if they can be grown in soil-less conditions

19. How we can do this?
• We can stack environmentally controlled greenhouses over each other
• Multiple floors of a building can be used to grow fruits and vegetables like
tomato, strawberry, turnip, cabbage and lettuce etc
• A seed storing facility etc. door can facilitate in continuous planting, measuring
growth and harvesting
• A mini ecosystem will be created

20. • Singapore, having one of the highest population
density in the world and left with only 250 acre
of farmland.
• “Sky green” started by 50 year old entrepreneur
Jack Ng.
Photo: Jack Ng, Sky Green
• Productive efficiency of vertical farming was tested in Punjab, where ICAR
scientists have attained initial success in growing potato tubers in soil-less
conditions.

21. East Delhi, India
FarmNest.com
Have100 planters in 10 square feet
Automation irrigation, drip based
irrigation

22. HYDROPHONICS
OVERCOME SOILAND SPACE CONSTRAINTS
Photo : Mr. Harish Narayan roof top
Kozhikode(Kerala, India)
• Plant grows with the help of nutrient laced water

23. FLOATING FARMS???
Photo: Wetland Resource Development Society
In face of floods and climate change, Bangladesh
is turning to floating farms
• The productivity of this farming system is 10
times higher than traditional land-based
agricultural production
• The plant bed, built using several layers of water
hyacinth and bamboo, is typically 15-50m in
length, 1.5-2m wide and 0.6-0.9m thick
• Vegetables like okra, cucumbers, bitter gourds
eggplants, beans, tomatoes, cauliflowers turnips
radishes, carrots, ginger and garlic are being
grown at initial investment of $9-10

24. INDIA’S HIGHLY AMBITIOUS YET CONTROVERSIAL
2013 FOOD SECURITY BILL
GAPS:
• Bill strives to cover 75% of India’s rural population and 50% of the urban
population accounting for 800 million people.
Who are these people and what’s the criteria?
APL BPL ????
• Flawed PDS
Food grains are stocked in warehouses yet lakhs of people
in India are left starved

25. .
• ICMR recommends that an adult requires 14kg and children requires 7 kg of
food grains per month required to combat malnutrition.
Government providing only 5 kg per month!!!
No talks about pulses and edible oil??
• Poor record keeping and implementation prevent benefits from reaching out to
the needy( only 42% of subsidized grains reach the people)
• Different schemes of this bill are going to cost the exchequer more than 25
billion dollar i.e. nearly 0.75 % of the GDP

26. PROPOSED SOLUTION
• Involvement of private sectors as part of CSR
• Decentralization of PDS; Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh and Chattisgarh are
successfully implementing it
• Transparency in the operation of Fair Price Shops
• Proper regulatory mechanism in place

27. THANK YOU