Chapter 1 and 2

Chapter 1 Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger describes three major shifts that farmers, scientists, donors, agribusiness executives, and the global community need to consider. First shift needed is to develop new seeds as the solution for hunger and poverty. Second shift suggests the best way to ensure that everyone gets enough to eat is to change what kind of food is produced and improve its distribution. The U.K. based Soil Association encourages less meat production and use more environmentally sustainable agricultural methods that do not rely on petroleum chemicals. Also produce more local and regional foods. The third shift is to make food aid more cost-effective by purchasing food from nearby countries. People in Africa are dying from hunger. There are organizations developing ways for farmers to produce more food for their families to avoid hunger. It is an issue that has been taken seriously for many years and hopefully world hunger will be reduced to zero.

Chapter 2 Moving Ecoagriculture into the Mainstream talks about what Ecoagriculture is about. I wasn’t aware of the term until I read this chapter. Ecoagriculture is a landscape approach to natural resources management that tries to find a way to sustain agricultural production, conserve biodiversity and support rural livelihoods. Reading about different kinds of agriculture has expanded my interest in agriculture. It is important to have Ecoagricluture to help farmers increase their production. It is remarkable to think how world organizations are trying to help farmers increase production.