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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Crop failures

Crop failures

  • Loss of agricultural crops
  • Low crop yields

Broader

Shortfalls in agricultural crop production
Excellent

Aggravates

Famine
Excellent
Insecurity from future crop uncertainty
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Natural disasters
Excellent
Locust plagues
Excellent
Crop vulnerability
Excellent
Overdependence on few crop species
Presentable
Uncontrolled genetic drift
Yet to rate

Strategy

Intercropping
Presentable
Raising crop yields
Yet to rate
Predicting crop failures
Yet to rate
Lowering crop yields
Yet to rate
Developing transgenic crops
Yet to rate

Value

Lowness
Yet to rate
Loss
Yet to rate
Failure
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Agriculture
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Crops
  • Societal problems » Failure
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G3363
    DOCID
    11733630
    D7NID
    145424
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020