Wildlife-Human Conflicts impacting Global Food Security: A challenge and it's Mitigation Strategies.
The Human population has exceeded the mark of 7.8 billion which is interdependent on natural resources for their sustenance. For our survival we need food and with the advancement of technology and food demand, it requires more agricultural land to satisfy our needs. Global Food Security is the state of having reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food. Today, we are facing the Global Food Security issue which has variable causes and miserable consequences on human health. Wildlife-Human Conflict is one of the causes, which impacts considerable percent of Global Crop Land which leads to economic loss to the farmers. Forest dwellers have co-existed with wildlife populations since ages. As the land use changed with time it affected the patterns of wildlife habitats. The expansion of agriculture has been one of humanity’s largest impacts on the environment. According to the FAO, global agricultural land is increasing with the increasing food demand and it will cross 1.66 bi