Food Crisis In Malaysia

“13.1 percent of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 925 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day,” reported by Kasim (2013). This phenomenon happened may be related to problems of population growth, poverty, natural disaster, improper cultural practice, land shortage and so on. Can you imagine a world without food which serve as an important energy sources for our metabolic activities? Although Malaysia has plenty of arable lands for agricultural purpose but food crisis has still occur. According to the declaration of International Fund for Agricultural Development (2011) or known as IFAD, smallholder farmers are able to produce about 80 per cent of the food consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The IFAI also asserted that there are about 500 million smallholders in this planet which play roles in supplying the daily diet consumption of 2 billion people. Therefore, it is clear that smallholder farmers have potential in feeding a hungry world instead of large scale production field. However, smallholder farmer cannot do it alone to achieve the goal. They need support either from government or private sectors to expand their roles in transforming global food systems. Thus, provision of training for smallholder farmers is the best solution for food crisis in Malaysia as it can help farmers to gain high productivity, high resilience to the crises and less environmental pollution.
The importance of training for smallholder farmers cannot be underestimated in today’s quickly evolving worlds. Smallholder farmers are subsistence farmers which have limited resources and possess lands about two hectares in sizes or less (Hazell, Poulton, Wiggins & Dorwar...

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...or the government and private organizations always provide all the facilities or capital needed to help smallholder farmers around the world climb out of food crisis. Therefore, an effective training that designed based on the detailed local knowledge able to facilitate farmers to gain high productivity, high resilience to crisis and adequate literacy level particularly amongst the rural farmers to combat such raised issue. This is because the trained farmers will be equipping with survival skill and knowledge to handle the crises and changing factors that lower their farm product’s yields and competitive value. Further investment on smallholder farmers either by government or private sector also should be encouraged in order to transform the smallholder into commercial growers which own better production efficiency and advanced technologies than the previous one.