Global Food Security Flashcards
Current world population is ______
- 6 billion
- projected to reach 11.2 billion in 2100
- US population is 328,054,892
World population broken down by countries
- Africa: 1.29 billion (15.8%)
- Asia: 4.5 billion (59.2%)
- China: 1.42 billion (18.7%)
- India: 1.35 billion (17.8%)
- US: 328 million (4.5%)
Africa population trends
Population is growing (3.5%)
- high malnutrition rates (34%)
- more than 50% of Uganda population is less than 30 yr old
- US has 0.7% annual change
_____ is critical in human nutrition, esp children living with AIDS
Animal protein
_______ is a pathway for poverty eradication in Africa
Animal resources
What programs are in place for Africa’s livestock
- African Union (Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program)
- New Partnership for Africa’s Development
- Food and Agriculture Organization
Feed the Future program
To eradicate hunger through food security
- Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, and to a lesser extent Tanzania and Uganda
Pastoral vs agro-pastroal production systems
- Somalia: mostly pastoral
- Kenya: pastoral
- Ethiopia: mixed farming
- Sudan: agro-pastoral and mixed
- Uganda: mixed farming
What are the 5 drivers of livestock movement?
- trade (economists, lawyers)
- cultural practices (marriage)
- religious practices (horn of Africa, middle east)
- wars, governance
- pastoralism
____ of known pathogens affecting production, public health, global trade, and biosecurity are resident in sub-saharan African and ECA
70%
- 60% of known pathogens are zoonotic
- 75% of emerging and re-emerging pathogens are from animals
- 80% are used as biothreats
Albertine ecosystem
920 mile long western area of East African Rift, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania
- contains more than half of Africa’s birds, 40% of mammals, and 20% of amphibians and plants
- **biodiversity hotspot!!*
- emerging pandemic threats classified this region as hot spot for emerging pandemics
African livestock population
224 million cattle, 447 million goats, 34 mission equines and camels
- >60% are located in east and central Africa
Livestock provides ____ of Africa’s agricultural gross domestic product
36%
In ECA, animal resources contribute up to ____ of national GDP
90%
- Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya share the upper percentile of 50-90%
- In Uganda, 55% GDP and 80% of population is involved in agriculture
In Uganda, ____ contributes to more than 67% of average household income
Animal resources
- poverty is less common in households that rely on livestock
