Doing the sum right or the right sums? Techno-optimist numbers in food security scenarios
In a paper recently published on the journal Food Ethics (Saltelli and Lo Piano, 2017), we take issue with a scenario for the future of agriculture recently published. The scenario we target, which is not uncommon in present discourse on food security, assumes that improving in agricultural techniqu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/92486 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10609/92486 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | food security sensitivity auditing quantitative story telling food distribution ecosystem alteration political asymmetries asimetrías políticas seguridad alimentaria control de sensibilidad story telling cuantitativo distribución alimentaria alteración del ecosistema asimetries polítiques seguretat alimentària control de sensibilitat story telling quantitatiu distribució alimentària alteració de l'ecosistema Food security Seguretat alimentària Seguridad alimentaria |
| Sumario: | In a paper recently published on the journal Food Ethics (Saltelli and Lo Piano, 2017), we take issue with a scenario for the future of agriculture recently published. The scenario we target, which is not uncommon in present discourse on food security, assumes that improving in agricultural techniques and adopting better dietary styles will lead to producing more food in less land, as to feed 10 billion people in 2050. While the proposed scenario and its quantitative estimates may be useful to initiate a debate on the important issue of food security, it also poses the risk of anchoring the discussion to a pre-defined narrative. |
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