Comparative Evaluation on Current Progress of Global Crop Production Service in the Twenty-First Century and Its Future Prospects
摘要
Global crop production plays several vital provisioning roles to ensure the periodical sustainability of global human productivity. However, its recent progress in the twenty-first century is impeded by several pressuring challenges, mainly burgeoning population, climate change, arable land scarcity and economic instabilities. This book chapter comparatively evaluates the current progress of crop production service in some countries using the case studies from developed (United States of America or USA, Australia), developing (China, Brazil) and underdeveloped countries (Ghana, Myanmar) as comparison. Furthermore, this book chapter highlights the future prospects of global crop production services and suggests solutions to solve its aforementioned challenges. The provisioning service provided by crop production service is vital to sustain human life in terms of health, food security, and economic growth. Currently, the global crop production service has been evaluated to become more demanding and complicated due to the aforementioned stressors. The crop production service trend may vary across the world depending on the countries, with developed and developing countries generally possessing more advanced crop production service than underdeveloped countries due to higher capital investment in the agricultural sector and lack of marginalisation experienced by the former. In the future, higher demand for the crop production is expected; hence, the integration of several crucial components such as advanced sciences and technologies, stricter enforcement of relevant policies and programs, better capital investment and other climate actions into crop agriculture is essential to preserve its sustainability.