4.

Issues Faced to Secure Foods:

Providing food security for everyone is one of Bangladesh's biggest problems right now. Even
with substantial developments in food grain productivity and accessibility, the nation and its
government continue to have serious concerns about national, household, and individual food
security. There are still issues despite Bangladesh's improvements in food security. Continuous
risks include factors like population pressure, the effects of changes in the climate, and periodic
natural calamities. The following are several of the major problems to the nation's food security:

4.1 Population Growth

Food security has been significantly impacted by population increase. A nation's resources are
strained more when its population grows, which makes it harder to produce and distribute food.
Increased population can also result in more poverty and inequalities within societies, as well as
increasing demand on land and water supplies. Governments must support family development
initiatives and contraception to solve this problem and lessen the strain on available resources.

With more than 60 million people living in poverty and experiencing stunted growth as well as
diminished mental and physical abilities, Bangladesh is entitled to the third biggest population of
people in need of food, beneath behind China and India. Bangladesh produces almost enough
rice to support itself, but food security is still a distant dream. As a result of inadequate feeding
practices and limited access to nutrient-dense meals, a startling 43% of Bangladesh's less than
five kids remain stunted at the moment. 75% of the carbohydrates in the normal Bangladeshi
menu are from rice, suggesting a lack of variety in the diet. The primary staple that makes up the
majority (96%) of all the food grains produced in Bangladesh is rice.

Our population could cause serious issues with food and nutrition if we are not paying close
attention. It goes without saying that there would be a need for more food to ensure the survival
of humanity if the population continued to grow at an excessively high rate. In order to sustain a
population of this scale, we would have to either: i) offer a growing number of infertile land,
forests, and mountains under farming, which would further decrease our already limited amount
of not used agricultural land; or ii) raise food production by repeatedly cultivating the exact same
area of land using a large amount of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, as well as
underground water by using shallow and deep tube wells, which would severely deplete the level
of groundwater.