SUSTAINABILITY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE January 2024 47 they come under the heading of “food security”. The case of Ukraine just brought its importance back as it stayed far away from EU boundaries and still there is a problem of hunger being unsolved. Every four seconds, one person, usually it is a child under the age of five dies of hunger. There is a variety of reasons for this, from the growth of the world population and thus the increased demand for food, to changes in consumption patterns, rising food prices, expanding water-scarce areas, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and losses in and various wastages of food supplies. Nevertheless, as per the United Nations data, 40% of the world's human population relies on agriculture for their livelihoods, with up to 80% of the global food demand being met by 500 million small, rain-water dependent farms. With this in mind, investing in small-scale farming seems key to strengthening food security for the poorest, as well as supFigure 1. Sustainable Development Goals Figure 2. From among the G20 economies, Saudi Arabia produces over six times more emissions per capita than India
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