Global Food Security
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Global Food Security
What is global Food Security:
To be food secure is when people have availability and adequate access at all times to sufficient, safe, nutritious, and affordable food to maintain a healthy and active life.
In 2016: 41.2 million people lived in food-insecure households. Food security consists of four main elements:
Availability, access, utilisation, and stability
Availability
Availability is about food supply and trade, not just quantity but also the quality and diversity of food.
Access
Access covers economic and physical access to food, Improving access requires better market access for smallholders allowing them to generate more income from cash crops.
Utilisation
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Considering that we already produce enough food to feed the whole planet, this should no longer be a problem. But there are a number of factors that get in the way, including inefficient use of water, fertilisers and crop rotations.
Some of those threats include: drought, food safety, energy disruption, economics, terrorism, chemical pollution, genetic pollution, impacts on pollinators, soil erosion and climate change.
Other threats could be the rapid increase in population over the world which will reach 9 billion people by 2050, and with having approximately 1 billion people in risk of being Food insecure the numbers will only keep getting higher as time passes by.
In 2014 around 805 million people which is about one in nine of the world's population were chronically undernourished. The vast majority (98 percent) lived in developing countries, this is one of the consequences for ignoring Food
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This is already affecting various regions in the world, an example of a region that is particularly at risk would be the sub-Saharan Africa, which had more than one in four people who were undernourished in 2014.
The causes of food insecurity:
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Market dominance of multinational agribusinesses and exporters, Access to farming land,
Land 'grabbing',
Biofuels, Natural disasters and climate change, Conflict, Unfair trade rules and Food wastage.
Since 1990 the number of undernourished has dropped by 17°/o mainly because of the economic growth in poorer countries. Now 70°/o of counties have become food secure.
6.5 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure.
The most food secure countries are:
1. United States 89.3
2. Austria 85.5
3. Netherlands 84.4
3. Norway 84.4
5. Singapore 84.3
6. Switzerland 84.2
7. Ireland 84.0
8. Canada 83.7
8. Germany
Food security is the availability, access, stability and utilisation of food for all people. (Beddington et al., 2012) The world’s population is expected to reach nine million by 2050. The main limitations stopping the world from achieving food security is food wastage, inadequate production and economic barriers. Overcoming these barriers is essential to being able to feed an increased population however it must be done in a way that will not exploit our natural resources or environment so that future generations can also to produce enough food.
Gundersen, Waxman, Engelhard, and Brown (2010) found in their study that 50 million people (including 17 million children) were food insecure in 2010. Poverty and food insecurity affects the lives of billions of people worldwide and millions of people in the United States. More than two billion pe...
“Why are people malnourished in the richest country on earth?” (McMillan 66) The author: Tracie McMillan starts out her article asking this question. This article’s main points talk about how and why Americans are malnourished. Whether it had to do with a financial issue or difficulties in their lives, this article mentions real life examples of both. Many people are struggling just to put food on the table and this makes it hard to eat nutritionally. As McMillan points out, people who are living in poverty tend to be malnourished. I believe more needs to be done and humans as a whole should search for a solution.
This is a huge problem for these communities. With a lack of nourishment, these people, especially children,
United States of America produces far more food than they could possibly manage to consume while they import the surplus. The question is how comes that some people lack this food that is claimed to be in surplus and go as far as the extent of dying? Scientists and researchers have come up with possible causes of what might have led to the rapid rates of death as a result of starvation. Some of the well-known factors that cause hunger in the United States of America as well as other continents such as Africa include poverty, AIDS, lack of infrastructure, ignorance, lack of clout, conflicts and war, environmental overload and also discrimination. For this essay, we will look at the various economic and political factors that cause the high rise on hunger and starvation in
With the effects of globalization developing countries have difficulty competing on the open markets, exports to generate cash to fund and improve industry and agricultural technology may prove slow. However, food storage on a national level can go some way to alleviating hunger in poor productive areas in order to avoid the onset of famine. www.brad.ac.uk/research/ijas/ijas.htm www.unitedethopia.org/commentaries/Sep_dec_2003/TheRootCauseofFamine www.ogaden.com/Drough_war_April_15_03.htm
According to a few world hunger organizations, the five main causes of hunger in the third world are natural disasters, war, the poverty trap, agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of resources. Natural disasters such as droughts, floods and storms cause crops to be destroyed or peop...
As the world population grows and consumption per person increases, the demand for food is rising. To an extent, fossil fuels have made an increase in food production achievable, but the finite supply is rapidly depleting. Over the last 50 years, global food production has tripled (Mosier et al. 2004). Despite this, an estimated 870 million people were undernourished in 2010-2012 (FAO 2013) while in 2008, 5...
As defined by the World Health Organization, food security is defined as “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” This concept of food security also includes both physical and economic access to food that satisfies the dietary needs and ...
There are many problems confronting our global food system. One of them is that the food is not distributed fairly or evenly in the world. According “The Last Bite Is The World’s Food System Collapsing?” by Bee Wilson, “we are producing more food—more grain, more meat, more fruits and vegetables—than ever before, more cheaply than ever before” (Wilson, 2008). Here we are, producing more and more affordable food. However, the World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are still famine and hungers as the food price are climbing. Wilson stated, “despite the current food crisis, last year’s worldwide grain harvest was colossal, five per cent above the previous year’s” (Wilson, 2008). This statement support that the food is not distributed evenly. The food production actually increased but people are still in hunger and malnutrition. If the food were evenly distributed, this famine problem would’ve been not a problem. Wilson added, “the food economy has created a system in w...
Niger and Sierra Leone, the two poorest countries in the world only have a GDP of around 500 dollars per capita. Which, compared to Canada’s 27,000 dollars per capita, is considerably low. In the 48 poorest countries, an average of 2$ a day is made by each working person. Imagine living off 2$ a day in Canada, you couldn’t even buy a Big Mac and a drink for 2$. This is making starvation a very serious problem in 3rd-world countries, not to mention their low immune systems, used for preventing disease, not working right from the lack of nutrition.
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Famine has struck parts of Africa several times during the 20th century, and to this day is still going strong. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the average African consumes 2300 kcal/day, less than the global average of 2700 kcal/day. Recent figures estimate that 316 million Africans, or approximately 35 percent of the continent's total population, is undernourished. Although hunger in Africa is hardly new, it now occurs in a world that has more than enough food to feed all its citizens. Moreover, while Africa's population is growing rapidly, it still has ample fertile land for growing food. Hunger therefore reflects not absolute food scarcity but rather people's lack of access to resources—whether at the individual, house-hold, comunity, or national leve that are needed to produce or purchase adequate food supplies. The reasons people cannot obtain enough food are: several different historical patterns of in equality. These patterns include the in equalities between Africa and its former colonisers or contemporary financiers, and between Africa's rich and poor. It also includes in equality between members of the same households, where food and the resources needed to obtain it (such as land and income) are often unevenly distributed between men and women, old and young. Whatever the reasons for food deprivation, when the result is malnutrition it can do damage, increasing diseases such as malaria, rickets, anemia, and perhaps acquired immune deficiency syndrome aka AIDS Mal-nourished children suffer stunted growth and, often, learning problems. Malnourished adults have less energy to work. Over the long term, inadequate nourishment can cast communities into a cycle o...
One of the most complex issues in the world today concerns human population. The number of people living off the earth’s resources and stressing its ecosystem has doubled in just forty years. In 1960 there were 3 billion of us; today there are 6 billion. We have no idea what maximum number of people the earth will support. Therefore, the very first question that comes into people’s mind is that are there enough food for all of us in the future? There is no answer for that. Food shortage has become a serious problem among many countries around the world. There are many different reasons why people are starving all over the world. The lack of economic justice and water shortages are just merely two examples out of them all.
Hunger and poverty have been a major problem in the world, which has being leading most people to death than cancer, Ebola, and malaria do. More than thousands of people die from hunger and poverty, and most of the people who suffer most are children below the age of ten. Hunger and poverty have contributed to the world food crisis that has an impact on the economy, the environment, and political issues. People living with hunger and poverty are more than those living a successful life in both developed and developing the world. Hunger makes victims live underweight, causing numerous of sickness to their health. Lack of