A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

OF

AN INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS

ON

GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

AS UNDERSTOOD

BY THE ROGATIONIST SEMINARIANS

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CONTEMPORARY WORLD

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IN FULFILLMENT

OF THE REQUIREMENT IN MIDTERM

BY

SEMINARIAN JOVANNE Q. BACULPO

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OCTOBER 2020
 RATIONALE

The Food Security means that people have an adequate economic access in food

preferences to for an active healthy life. The term 'food security' is being used more frequently in

recent years, with the Government putting greater emphasis on its importance. Wherein,

Individuals who are food secure do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. 1Food insecurity, on

the other hand, is defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a situation

of "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or

uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways". 2Food security

incorporates a measure of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply

due to various risk factors including droughts, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic

instability, and wars

Thus, this study aims to identify the basic food preferences of people having security of

food, in order to maintain healthy lifestyle. This interpretative analysis on food security renders

us an overview of interpreting food security as a means to develop one’s health lifestyle.

Moreover, this study also aims to identify the scopes and limitations of food security by looking

to its resilience to disruption of food supply due to various risk that occurs in this contemporary

era. Maintaining the supply of food is the aim of the people in order to sustain the hunger and

needs of every individual. Security towards food is a big help to answer the problem of hunger

but this study would help the people to look on the positive side of securing food for the healthy

lifestyle of every individual.

1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security
2
Ibid.
 LITERATURE REVIEW

To provide some clarity in the debate about the role of governance in addressing food (in)

security, this paper reports the results of a systematic review of the literature. The synthesis

revolves around seven recurring themes the view of governance as both a challenge and solution

to food security a governability that is characterized by high degrees of complexity failures of

the current institutional architectures the arrival of new players at the forefront calls for

coherency and coordination across multiple scales variation and conflict of ideas and calls for

the allocation of sufficient resources and the integration of democratic values in food security

governance. Two lines of discussion of this synthesis are raised. First, the researcher argues that

a large proportion of the food security governance literature is characterized by an optimist

governance perspective, a view of governance as a problem-solving mechanism. Complementing

this body of literature with alternative governance perspectives in future research may strengthen

current understandings of food security governance. Approaching food security as a ‘wicked

problem’ could provide valuable insights in this respect. Second, food security governance as a

research field could make headway by engaging in further empirical investigation of current

governance arrangements, particularly at sub-national levels.

Insufficient access to food is known to compromise tertiary studies. Students often belong to

groups known to have poor food security such as those renting or relying on government

payments. The present study administered a cross-sectional survey incorporating the USDA food

security survey module (FSSM) to 810 students at a metropolitan university in Brisbane,

Australia. One in four students indicated they were food insecure, this being double that

previously reported for tertiary students and five times that previously reported for the general

population. Factors associated with food insecurity included low income, reliance on government

support and renting. Students from food insecure households were twice as likely to report only

fair or poor general health and three times as likely to have deferred their studies due to financial

difficulties. Further, at least 80 % of these students reported that their studies were compromised.

Strategies to alleviate food insecurity among students could improve retention rates and

educational outcomes.

METHODOLOGY/THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Definition of Terms

Food Security - Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food
Security, means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to
sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an
active and healthy life.
https://www.ifpri.org/topic/food-security

Healthy Life - is a way of living that lowers the risk of being seriously ill or dying early.
Not all diseases are preventable, but a large proportion of deaths, particularly those from
coronary heart disease and lung cancer, can be avoided.
http://www.kznhealth.gov.za/healthyliving.pdf

Economic instability- involves a shock to the usual workings of

the economy. Instability tends to reduce confidence and lead to lower investment, lower
spending, lower growth and higher unemployment. Economic instability can be caused by.
Changing commodity prices.
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/43/economics/causes-of-economic-instability/
 Fear of starvation- Cibophobia, or the fear of food, is a relatively complicated phobia that
can rapidly spiral into an obsession. People with this phobia are sometimes mistakenly thought to
suffer from anorexia, an eating disorder.
https://www.verywellmind.com/cibophobia-fear-of-food-symptoms-and-treatment-2671851

Droughts -is a period of time when an area or region experiences below-normal

precipitation. The lack of adequate precipitation, either rain or snow, can cause reduced soil
moisture or groundwater, diminished stream flow, crop damage, and a general water shortage
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/drought/

Shipping disruptions - continues, uncertainty remains about the recent news of the

administration invoking the DPA & its impact on shippers & manufacturers.

https://cerasis.com/shipping-disruption/

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study is to determine important issues that many governments have,

especially in the past, considered food as a matter of national security. 3The fright of food

shortages was the basis for advocating self-sufficiency policies in those countries dependent on

food imports. Similar attitude has been recently noticed in a number of rich, food importing

(especially in the Gulf and Asia), and countries (Siegenbeek van Heukelom 2011). The concept

food security is very different from (and much broader than) that of food self-sufficiency: an

economy with diversified productive activities which produces only a minimal part of the food

consumed in the country is able to reach 35 high levels of food security, as the stories of many
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countries show (e.g., the Asian Tigers). Thus, we do not consider lack of adequate national food

production by itself as a real concern for national security.

Conceptual Framework

The capability approach to food security was primarily elaborated in 1989 by Jean Drèze and

Amartya Sen in the pioneering book Hunger and Public Action. 4Although the authors do not

make any reference to the concept of food security, they develop a general analytical framework,

based both on the capability approach of Sen (1985, 1999) and his entitlement approach, for

studying hunger –chronic or transitory– and all related aspects: undernourishment, malnutrition,

famines, etc. A puzzling question about this book and the proposed framework is that,

notwithstanding it is much broader and far reaching than the entitlement approach, it is much less

known, discussed and utilized, both by scholars and practitioners. For example, almost all those

studies and reports produced after 1989 on food security that make some reference to Sen cite

only the Poverty and Famine book and the entitlement approach but not Hunger and Public

Action. The great popularity and success of the former book shadow the latter. This circumstance

is as odd as baffling.

Methodology

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1. Research Respondent

The total number of respondent s would be 60 seminarians and priests ranging from 16-

55 years of age.

2. Research Environment

The seminarians and priests gathered and live in the Rogationist Seminary College of

Cebu, St. John St., Don Bosco village, Punta Princesa, Labangon, Cebu City

3. Research Instruments

The research and survey will be answer the seminarians and priest will be given a
questionnaire to answer the question and conduct an interview.

4. Research Procedure

4.1. Gathering the Data

The seminarians and priests will be given a survey questionnaire to answer the question.

4.2. Treatment of Data

Data gathered will be hinted, examined, and organized into memoranda, brief into

categories and refrains; and will be understood through a stranded theory based on the

study of food security.

IV. References
  file:///C:/Users/rogatelX/Downloads/Capability%20Approach%20Food%20Security.pdf

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security

 https://www.ifpri.org/topic/food-security

 http://www.kznhealth.gov.za/healthyliving.pdf

 DFID (1999). Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. In: Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance

Sheets (Section 2)

 www.livelihoods.org/info/info_guidancesheets.html

 FAO (2006) the State of Food Insecurity in the World. Eradicating world hunger – taking

stock ten years after the World Food Summit. FAO, Rome.www.fao.org/sof/sofi/

Additional reading
6. FIVIMS (2000) Guidelines for National FIVIMS. Background and principles.

UNICEF (1990) Strategy for Improved Nutrition of Children and Women in Developing

Countries. UNICEF, New York

7. FAO (2003) FAO Methodology for the Measurement of Food Deprivation, FAO Statistics

Division, FAO, Rome.

V. Appendices

1. How does the food security solve the hunger of person?

2. How would you maintain and develop the food security?

3. If you have the chance to evaluate would you evaluate it?

4. How the food security affect in the lives of other people?

5. Is there any solution to resolve the problem of hunger?

6. Explain briefly the understanding and development of food security?

7. What do you feel or reaction if you see the people hunger?

8. Would you like to help the people who have no healthy lifestyle?

9. Why some of people did not afford to develop their healthy lifestyle?
10. How would you help them in a simple thing? Would you grab the opportunity to help them?

Explain briefly.