The four most populous countries in the World Population Threatened Food Crisis

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Four of the world's most populous countries, namely China, India, the United States, and Indonesia will experience a crisis of food sufficiency.
Minister of Agriculture Suswono, in his speech at the International Seminar on Food Safety, Bogor, said it was important to spur increased production and productivity of food.
Until 2050, world population will increase 33 percent, from six billion to eight billion people. Simultaneously, demand for food, water, and energy will increase 30-50 percent. "Food shortages in one of the densely populated countries would cause a domino effect on other countries," said Suswono, Thursday (27/10).
China and India are the two most populous countries of the world's population. Both supplier and consumer of food that even the slightest shock would affect the stability of the global food food.
Researchers from China's Yunnan Agricultural University, Xuelin Tan, said that Indonesia has that potential. "Indonesia plays a role in feeding the population of regional and global (feed the world)," said Tan. "As China is capable of supplying 20 percent of the world's food with only seven percent of agricultural land."
Nevertheless, China still faces the challenge of the agricultural sector was almost identical to Indonesia. Tan pointed out, China's agricultural land is often a lack of water due to lack of reservoirs in the country. Conversion of agricultural land to residential also occur. As a result, the irrigated rice field irrigation in China only 45 percent.
Meanwhile, academics from the Indian National Science Academy, S Nagarajan, said the threat was perceived spike in food prices since 2007 to 2008. "It creates social tension," he said in the same place.
Year after year the threat increases, ranging from climate change to the threat of a global economy. ASEAN countries along with India and China plays examine the area of ​​food security in a more pragmatic. Therefore, the collective prosperity is a shared vision.