Everyone knows that the world has the big problem of biodiversity. The technology continues improving and developing; however, the environment is destroyed by the technology. People use a lot of chemical sources to grow crops. The result is that not only do a lot of people have new disease such as cancer, but also food resources become fewer and fewer. In addition, there are more and more people on earth and some people do not have enough food. Although many countries find a lot of ways to own more food, the world also needs more and more food. Thus, people should try to find some solutions to protect food resources. There are three solutions that can help to solve the food problems: people should change different ways or types of crops to plant every year; people should repair the environment, and people should keep the food chain safe.
Nowadays there are more and more people in the world; however, people cannot produce enough food for everyone. In U.S. Food and Drug Administration (n.d.), “Food Protection Plan,” American’s government makes a plan to solve the sources and production of food. In addition, scientists try doing research to find more sources such as in agriculture. In Agricultural and Food Scientists (n.d.), the biological scientists discuss that “Using research in biology fields, chemistry, and mathematics can understand our world” (para.2). It will help people to protect our food more. Moreover the food price is getting higher and higher. According to Food CPI, Prices, and Expenditures (2008), “In 2008, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food is projected to increase 3.0 to 4.0 percent” (para.1). Therefore, the government should start considering about this problem since the price of food has been increased because many people cannot afford that. However, there is an argument that the plan is not useful and has a lot of problems. According to Reuters (2008), “Food and Drug Administration claim that lives are risk because the agency is behind in the latest scientific advances and it is underfinanced” (para.10). People have to notice the warming and find effective solutions to protect food. To sum up, if people want to live longer on earth, they should know how to protect their food resources in effect.
First of all, the farmers alter styles to cultivate agriculture plants in order to protect food resources. They can plant different crops in proper season every year that can make influence on biodiversity. In fact, all crops have their responsibility to do useful work. The rice husk provides food for people, but the vegetation gives the ground having time to relax. In each year, most farmers have two seasons to plant crops in spring and fall; however, they also have some rest time to plant other things. It is good chances to plant special croppers such as flowers or grass that can let the land have time to take a rest. Moreover, planting crops need to find the suitable soil and then crops can plant well. The farmers need to prepare soil that can help crops grow well. Also, some crops or plants will provide better materials like organic matter. According to Hard (2008), “Incorporate well-rotted manure, other organic matter, compost, and a complete fertilizer such as a 10-10-10, at the rate of 2 pounds per 100 square feet into the soil before planting” (para.2). The better soil the farmers could have, and the better crops they could get. In a word, the farmers can use new ways and types to plant crops such as planting different crops in fit season and preparing suitable soil in order to plant good crops.
Secondly, people have to restore the environment. The farmers should take harmful effects away from lands and fields. For example, people want to produce more food so they use technology to change the harvest season, but the field becomes barren year after year. The farmers should change using the land too much. In Goulding and Blake’s (1998) article, “A change of land use has important consequences for many biological, chemical and physical processes in soils and the environment” (p.2). In addition, different kinds of fields are suitable for grass, wood or different types of tillage. The farmers should understand what kind of lands that they can plant well crops. Besides, people have to make a law to protect the environment. In practice, people want to own more food so they do not care about the environment any more. They destroy the field and cause the environmental disaster. For instance, people use a lot of pesticides that can increase yields, but using pesticides led to destroy the ecosystem. The government should set up rules or laws to protect the environment such as controlling to use pesticides and reducing to create harmful pollution. In order to have a better field planting, people should do beneficial things such as planting more trees that can provide more places for living things and reduce the damage of soil. Therefore, people can remedy the environment and have better land to plant more food that can supply for more people.
Finally, everyone has to maintain the food chain safe. That can solve food problems. Nowadays the world wants to have more food so many scientists develops chemical pesticides to grow crops that led to destroy the ecology. The farmers should use natural enemies to protect plants. Actually, the ecology has the own system is that if the species can suit the environment, they will survive and do helpful work in the food chain system. The biological control the living beings and it is natural law. For example, people eat cows; cows eat grass; and grass needs soil. If cows disappear, the food chain will not be balance. People should continue keeping the system safe. In addition, people should use natural fertilizer to plant food in order to hold the food chain. For instance, people use a lot of chemical fertilizer to plant crops and some of them have harmful materials. In Johnson (2005) article, he claims that the America’s government should set up new rules and laws to maintain the food chain in order to protect the natural system more. When people use the fertilizer to grow the plants, they have to think about the ban of using chemical sources. They should use organic manure to till the lands such as “animal manure, green manure, and compost” (Jacks and Whyte, 1994, p.36). In short, everybody should try to keep the food chain longer and longer and also people can have health food and produce food forever.
Opponents claim people can use more money to protect food resources. However, this argument is not a good solution for protecting food. In fact, the government spends a lot of money in order to produce more food but the common people do not have any advantageous things. The local farmers cannot have enough money to make more food. For instance, some developing countries do not have a lot of money to give people especially the local gardener. They are poor, but they really need to have more food. It is a big problem to produce and protect food resources. Also, people need to learn how to protect food resources. The government should educate people how to plant good crops and how to save the food resources. For example, in MDC, people can have good education so the government should spend money to educate students how to protect food resources. Students can learn how important the food is; what is the good way to secure the acute environment problems; and what can they do to help the protect food resources. According to Forbes (2007), “Farmers in West and central Africa will learn how to better protect cowpeas, an important food and cash crop, and increase their household income on average about $150 per year” (para.2). People can be educated by programs and can learn more skills to help protect food resources. If people can realize these questions early, they can do more things such as not wasting food, not destroying environment, and doing study to find good food. In brief, the world has to find the effective way to find solution of preventing food resources.
In conclusion, people need to find solution to protect food supply such as using different ways to plant crops each year, repairing the environment where everyone lives, trying to keep the food chain , and educating people to learn skills to protect food. In general, people need to think deeply about the future. A lot of people say that the world has enough food now and the technology will improve more and more. However, the serious problem is that the population increases doubled or tripled every year. There will be more and more people on earth and the world cannot afford enough food for everyone. Also, the ecosystem encounters serious trouble that causes the decline of food resources. Everybody should notice the problems and finds ways to supply food from generation to generation. There is only one earth. It is everyone’s duty to protect the world.
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