GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

Global Food Security

-ensuring every nation has the ability to feed its
population adequate amounts of nutritional foods.
Food Security
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have
physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and
nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life”.
(World Food Summit, 1996)
In recent years, most of the research
initiatives for food security have focused on
four key components of the FAO's definition:

• Availability
• Accessibility
• Acceptability
• Adequacy
Local (Philippines) and International issues on
Food Security
A. LOCAL (PHILIPPINES)
• Growth in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR)
sector is beleaguered by high cost of inputs, inefficient supply chains
and logistics systems, inadequate capital investments in
infrastructure, irrigation and other public goods, low adoption of
technologies, including mechanization and limited access by small
producers to formal credit and financing;
• Slow development of agribusiness;
A. LOCAL (PHILIPPINES)
• Too much reliance on traditional crops such as rice, corn, coconut, and sugarcane;

• Vulnerability to extreme impacts of climate change and other environmental hazards;

• Relatively weak linkage between RD &E compounded by emasculated agriculture

extension delivery system of most LGUs;

• Institutional weaknesses in the form of overlapping and conflicting policies, laws and

legislations;

• Over-delayed implementation of asset reform and

A. LOCAL (PHILIPPINES)

• Environmental degradation compounded by weak

management of resources, weak enforcement of
policies/laws, inadequate data base and management
information system and underfunding of most environment
and natural resources programs including climate change.
B. International

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

(FAO) states that 925 million people in the world are
undernourished. The largest percentage of undernourished
people live in Asia and the Pacific Islands, followed by Sub-
Saharan Africa.
B. International

OBESITY IN SPAIN China’s growing problem on obesity

An investigation by the China's rapid economic growth

Mar de Barcelona hospital has brought huge lifestyle
has found that 80% of men changes - people now consume
and 55% of women will be more Western-style junk food,
overweight by 2030. laden with fat and sugar, and are
more sedentary.
12 MYTHS OF HUNGER
12 MYTHS OF HUNGER
Myth 1: Not Enough Food to Go Around
Myth 2: Nature is to Blame for Famine
Myth 3: Too Many People
Myth 4: The Environment vs. More Food?
Myth 5: The Green Revolution is the Answer
Myth 6: We Need Large Farms
Myth 7: The Free Market Can End Hunger
Myth 8: Free Trade is the Answer
Myth 9: Too Hungry to Fight for Their Rights
Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry
Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Poverty
Myth 12: Curtail Freedom to End Hunger?
Myth 1: Not Enough Food to Go Around
Supply, Accesibility, Waste and Poverty
Myth 2: Nature is to Blame for Famine
Human institutions are the ones who decide who eats during hard
times
Myth 3: Too Many People
The world produced enough food to feed 10
billion people and population growth and
hunger are both results of poverty and social
inequality
World population is actually decreasing
Myth 4: The Environment vs. More Food?

Efforts to feed the hungry are not causing the

environmental crisis. Large corporations are mainly
responsible for deforestation-creating and profiting from
developed-country consumer demand for tropical
hardwoods and exotic or out-of-season food items. These
large companies abuse cash crops that damages the
environment.
Myth 5: The Green Revolution is the Answer

It creates health impacts that we must

consider with its practices. It reduces the
quality of the soil used for growing crops.
Myth 6: We Need Large Farms
Small farm is much
beneficial than large
farms
Myth 7: The Free Market Can End Hunger

The free market economy makes the

distribution of wealth extremely skewed and
causes unequal purchase power in the
economy for the lower class.
Myth 8: Free Trade is the Answer
Trade barriers might create
opportunities for corruption,
but so do free trade
agreements. Free trade can
hinder the ability of a nation to
collect taxes from domestic
corporations.
Myth 9: Too Hungry to Fight for Their Rights
If the poor were truly passive, few of them
could even survive.
Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry
Foreign aid can only reinforce, not change, the status quo.
 Myth 11: We Benefit From Their Poverty
Cheaper labor in abroad creates poverty which
increases the need for global aid. Enforced
poverty in the Third World jeopardizes U.S.
jobs, wages and working conditions as
corporations seek cheaper labor abroad. In a
global economy, what American workers have
achieved in employment, wage levels, and
working conditions can be protected only
when working people in every country are
freed from economic desperation.
Myth 12: Curtail Freedom to End Hunger?
There is no theoretical practical reason why freedom, taken to
mean civil liberties, should be incompatible with ending hunger.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO FOOD SECURITY

• Zero waste and environmental protection

• Charity and social responsibility
• Agriculture and food security
• Industrial efficiency