Đối chiếu an ninh lương thực với môi trường Chất lượng trong thế kỷ 21 An ninh lương thực và chất lượng môi trường đi vào trái tim của con người. Điều gì có thể được thực hơn so với đói mà gnaws tại và nâng cao những đau khổ của những người thiếu calo hàng ngày tối thiểu và các cửa hút chất dinh dưỡng? Điều gì có thể được nhiều hơn thấy rõ đau khổ hơn cảnh quan năng suất tiềm năng của họ đã bị cướp nạn phá rừng và xói mòn đất? Điều gì có thể khốn khổ hơn hôi nước và không khí. | Part Six Issues and Priorities 2003 by CRC Press LLC 31 Reconciling Food Security with Environmental Quality in the 21st Century Norman Uphoff Food security and environmental quality go to the heart of the human condition. What could be more real than the hunger that gnaws at and heightens the misery of people who lack minimum daily caloric and nutrient intakes What could be more visibly distressing than landscapes that have been robbed of their potential productivity by deforestation and soil erosion What could be more wretched than foul water and polluted air that make drinking and breathing deadly The principal subjects of this volume are of immense importance to humankind. They are urgent matters in India as contributions to this volume have shown but they are also matters for the whole world to take seriously as we embark upon a new century. Already millions of people suffer as a result of uncertain food supplies and degraded environmental quality and there is no guarantee that the situation will get better during the coming decades. Both food security and environmental quality are creations of the mind abstractions that have been produced to enable analysts and policy makers to get a grasp on these immense challenges. We must take care not to conflate the real terms of these subjects with their analytical constructions the latter are important but they are only tools. They are a means to the end of assuring that all people will have access to healthy and sufficient food and will live in an environment that is healthy and robust. After two decades of debate and refinement food security is an idea whose time has come. It is on the lips and in the writings of agricultural scientists social scientists and nutritionists as well as administrators policy makers and policy critics. The concept was initially formulated by economists as a challenge to the proponents of food self-sufficiency who argued that countries needed to be able to produce enough food to feed .
