Key learning points

1. There is a move towards sustainable strategies to increase food supply.
2. Sustainable strategies to increase food supply include organic farming, seasonal food consumption and reduced waste.
3. Around nine per cent of people in Bangladesh live in extreme poverty, without enough food to eat.
4. Sandbar-cropping in Rangpur region is a local-scale example of how sustainable supplies of food can be increased.

Keywords

• Sustainable food supply - when food is produced in ways that avoid damaging natural resources, provide social benefits and contribute to local economies

• Organic farming - when food is grown without the use of artificial chemicals, such as fertiliser and pesticide

• Permaculture - a system of farming based upon or directly using patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems, such as increased biodiversity and intercropping

• Urban farming - the growing of crops and the raising of animals in towns and cities; includes processing and distributing food, as well as collecting and reusing food waste

Common misconception