Transformation Of Agricultural Methods: Challenges To Sustainable Food Security And Food Sovereignty

Prof. (Dr.) B.S. Reddy, Professor of Law, Alliance University

Ms. Ramya R, Research Scholar, School of Law, Alliance University

ABSTRACT

The concept of food sovereignty is gaining significance amongst many countries as a form of a global movement. Whereas the concept of food sovereignty initiates with an aim to focus on national self-sufficiency in food production and then it turns towards local self-sufficiency. This paper will discuss the possible ways to achieve food sovereignty goals through innovative institutional changes. The implication of food systems for invulnerable progress is the connection that links food security, nutrition, human health, the viability of ecosystems, climate change, and social justice. Various agricultural policies are motivated to focus on food supply to fulfill the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development. In continuance of those policies necessitates having a comparison with the paradigms that prevailed when routing the agricultural change in the twentieth century.

The Current scenario necessitates understanding the importance of biotechnology to improve agricultural production. The production in agriculture must have standard progress and to achieve the same, the conventional methods of agriculture should go hand in hand with the biotechnological approach. But the lack of knowledge with respect to the usage of biotechnologies in an extensive manner may go to the root of the sustainability of healthy human beings. This research paper will be identifying the various technologies involved in food production and will be analyzing the root cause for adopting certain dangerous technologies inclusive of Genetically modified organisms, chemical-based fertilizers, and their inferences.

One way there is a need for the rapid growth of the agricultural sector is to satisfy the requirement of the growing population to ensure their right to food. On the other hand, the quality of production is coming down due to the innovative technologies adopted in food production which ultimately mislays the proper nutrition which is supposed to be present in all food and gradually endangers the future healthy society.

Keywords: Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Climate Change, Technology, Genetically Modified Organisms.