Food Security Outline
Food Security Outline
- Introduction
- Definition
- Food security is all about ensuring that that people have safe and nutritious food required for a healthy life.
- Central Issue
- High incidences of food insecurity have been prevalent in modern societies
- Food insecurity leads to low population grow
- Thesis statement: food insecurity means unproductivity, instability, and human suffering
- Food insecurity and its Role on Population Growth
- Factors that cause food insecurity
- Policy issues: Unpreparedness on matters pertaining to food production
- Poverty: Low purchasing power of people makes them have readily available, safe and nutritious food.
- Gender disparities: Men have left the role of food production to women. The efforts of women are not enough to address food security.
- Drought and Famine: nations experiencing drought and famine are not able to produce or produces little food.
- War: war-stricken region does not have the capacity of producing enough food for their people.
- Overpopulation: increased population pressure interfere with potential farming areas and water catchments regions.
- Diseases: diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer denies the agricultural sector skilled labor; money to be used in the agricultural sector, is used for treatment and medication
- Consequences of food insecurity
- Increased Poverty: People who depend on agriculture becomes poor since they have income.
- Increased Crime Rates: Lack of food make people engage in criminal activities to fund their livelihoods
- Deteriorated Health: People become obese; High levels of stress, anxiety, and depression; Stunted growth
- Factors to promote food security
- Close the yield gap:
- converting some of the vast natural habitats to farming
- make the current agricultural land reach its potential
- Raise low water productivity:
- Improving irrigation systems
- Planting crops that use less water
- Planting drought-resistant crops
- Target food for direct consumption:
- Reduce the amount of crop used as animal feed and other non-food uses
- Reduce food wastage:
- Improvement in food preparation technique
- Improve storage facilities
- Use of improved farming technologies and fertilizer more efficiently:
- Use of synthetic fertilizers
- Use of modern farming tools
- Key actors and stakeholders
- Farmers/Households:
- Personal initiatives to increase productivity and alleviate poverty
- The ministries of agriculture
- World Food Program
- Working closely with governments, the United Nations, and NGOs to ensure coordinated efforts towards achieving food security
- NGOs and civil society
- Funding farmers establish agricultural projects
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Making sure people have access to enough high-quality food
- Recommendations
- An all-inclusive food security and nutrition policy
- Deliberate and target investment in irrigation
- Coordinated efforts at all levels of food production
- Conclusion
- It is possible to be food secure
- Failure to address food insecurity has negative repercussions
- The effort of addressing food insecurity requires coordination between all the stakeholders