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GLOBAL FOOD
SECURITY
What comes into
your mind when
you hear the
words
"FOOD
SECURITY"?

Do you think you

have food security AY

in your household?
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“Food security is the

availability at all times of
adequate food supplies of
basic foodstuffs to sustain
a steady expansion of food
consumption offset
What is fluctuations in productions
and prices.”
– FAO (1974)

Food
Food security exists when all
people, at all times, have
physical, social and economic
Security? access to sufficient, safe and
nutritious food that meets
their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and
healthy life.”
– FAO (2002)
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Four key pillars of

Food Security

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Elements of Food Security

Food Food Food Food

Availability Access Utilization Stability
having a sufficient supply having sufficient or consuming a nutritious strives to secure the
of food available on a resources to obtain diet. This means that dimensions of food
consistent basis. This appropriate foods for a people make appropriate availability, access, and
food can be either locally nutritious diet use of food, based on utilization over time.
produced or imported knowledge of basic
from other places nutrition and care
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IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL
FOOD SECURITY
Growth in the agriculture sector has been

found, on average, to be at least twice as

effective in reducing poverty as growth in

other sectors. Food insecurity – often

rooted in poverty decreases the ability of

countries to develop their agricultural

markets and economies.

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Access to quality, nutritious food is

fundamental to human existence. Secure
access to food can produce wide ranging
positive impacts, including:

Economic growth and job creation

Poverty reduction

Trade opportunities

Increased global security and stability

Improved health and healthcare

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Food insecurity has been defined as a

What is lack of consistent access to enough food

for an active and healthy life. In other
words, there are millions of people all

Food over the world who suffer from a

shortage of food and cannot tell if they
will be able to feed themselves the next
day or at the end of the day. This is the
InSecurity? basis of defining food insecurity.
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Effects of Food Insecurity

Effects Leads Increases
on to in Food Unemployment
Children Hunger Prices
A Rise in
Weak Violent
Health-
Immune Conflict
related Costs
System
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Major challenges
to food security
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• Decrease in cultivated area-urbanization,

industrialization and infrastructural projects on lands
used for agriculture
• Degradation of arable lands due to bad agricultural
and irrigation practices
• Stagnant yields due to less than adequate resource
allocation for agricultural R&D
• Climate change and environmental threats

Production • Increased cultivation of Biofuels crops on areas

previously used for food crops cultivation
• Land grabbing by corporate firms in
food insecure countries for cultivation of
food grains and their export to rich
countries
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• Increasing population-sheer number of people

demanding food is increasing
• Growing prosperity-more meat items in the
domestic menu which needs more food Consumption
grains.
• Changing food habits-urbanization needs
more processed food which consumes more
food
• Wastages-over eating, throwing away of food
cooked more than the needs and food getting
expired in the domestic fridges/chain stores
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• Access to food-financial constraints due to

persistent poverty, inequality and lack of
sufficient job opportunities Distribution
• Access to food-physical constraints, due to bad
governance, infrastructural inadequacies or
wrong policy framework
• Food Denial to people and communities due to
militancy, civil war or proxy wars
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Political
• Poor commitment of the ruling
elite to ensure this fundamental
right through proper legislation
• Not providing good governance
whereby people have freedom to
get food grains without any hassle
• Not improving overall law and
order and security situation in the
country for peaceful movement of
the food grains and its convenient
availability
• Not making special arrangements
for the provision of food grains in
conflict/disaster prone areas
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Promote
Reduce Food Waste Diversification

What Reduce the Risk of

Commercializing
Close the Yield
Gap

needs Improve Existing

Infrastructural Programs
Increase production through
horizontal expansion

to be Work Towards Defeating

Improve Trade Policies
done? Climate Change

Provide income support

Global food security is not always about taking
care of the food that is ready to be consumed by
people but also about how this food can be
gained, how humans can access adequate food,
and how every country’s food security condition is
different. There are some aspects that each
country needs to improve so that food insecurity
will not happen in their country. Food security in
its broadest sense is characterized by the needs
of every nation. It is a Global response towards
the betterment of global health and humanitarian
needs.
"If you cannot feed a
hundred people, then
feed just one."
-Mother Teresa