Scribd
Upload
18 views2 pages

World Food Security

Uploaded by

Aireen Jade Barcelona
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views2 pages

World Food Security

Uploaded by

Aireen Jade Barcelona
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

The Contemporary World

2nd sem – Finals


GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

WHAT IS FOOD SECURITY? • Economic growth and job creation


• Poverty reduction
Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, • Trade Opportunities
food security is defined when all people, at all • Increased global security and stability
times, have physical and economic access to • Improved health and healthcare
sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets
their dietary needs and food preferences for
an active and healthy life.  On the contrary, the term “FOOD
INSECURITY” is used according to Food
THE FOUR MAIN DIMENSIONS OF FOOD Forward 2019, which refers to a lack of access
SECURITY: to enough, good, healthy, and culturally
appropriate food.
PHYSICAL AVAILABILITY OF FOOD
Addresses the “supply side” of food security
and is determined by the level of food ENOUGH
production, stock levels and net trade. Everyone needs to eat, and we all need to eat
a certain amount to stay healthy, active and
ECONOMIC AND PHYSICAL ACCESS TO FOOD happy.
An adequate supply of food at the national or
international level. It concerns about GOOD
insufficient food access have resulted in a What’s good for you might not be good to
greater policy focus on incomes, expenditure, others.
markets and prices in achieving food security
objectives. HEALTHY
Healthy food is nutritious and sustaining
FOOD UTILIZATION UTILIZATION
is commonly understood as the way the body CULTURALLY
makes the most of various nutrients in the appropriate People have food that they are
food. familiar and comfortable with.
STABILITY OF THE OTHER THREE
DIMENSIONS OVER TIME
FOOD SECURITY…
Even if your food intake is adequate today,
you are still considered to be food insecure if On the other hand, according to Radimer
you have inadequate access to food on a 2002, Food Security exists whenever the
periodic basis, risking a deterioration of your availability of nutritionally adequate and safe
nutritional status. foods or the ability to acquire acceptable food
in socially acceptable ways is limited or
uncertain.
IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

Food security refers to the availability of Food Security exists when people have
food and one’s access to it. Secure access to physical and economic access to sufficient,
food can produce wide ranging positive safe, and nutritious food that meets their
impacts such as: dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

L. AJ 1
TCW – Global Food Security

“Everybody needs food but the complexity of


delivering sufficient food to a national
population and to the whole world’s
population shows why food security is such a
priority for all countries, whether still
developing or developed country”.

MAJOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES:

POPULATION GROWTH
This varies considerably across countries

CHANGING TASTES
Not only the population is growing, but its diet
is changing too

CLIMATE CHANGE
The rising temperatures will turn more
landmass into desert

WATER SCARCITY
28% of agriculture lies in water-stressed
regions

TROUBLED FARMERS
In developed countries, less than 2% of
people grow crops or breed animals for food

THREE MAIN ASPECTS OF FOOD SECURITY:

FOOD AVAILABILITY
Having a sufficient supply of food available on
a consistent basi

FOOD ACCESS
Having sufficient resources to obtain
appropriate foods for a nutritious diet

FOOD UTILIZATION
People make appropriate use of food

You might also like