GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY1.pdf CONTMPEORARY WORLD LESSON

GLOBA; FOOD SECURITY FOR CONTEMPORARY WORLD IN COLLEGE

1. GLOBAL FOOD
SECURITY
GLOBAL FOOD
SECURITY

2. What is Food
Security?
What is Food
Security?

3. What is Food
Security?
What is Food
Security?
Food security is defined as the
availability of food and one's access
to it. A household is considered food
secure when its occupants do not
live in hunger or fear of starvation.

4. Rising food and
prices and poverty
TRENDS/CHALLENGES TO GLOBAL
FOOD SECURITY
TRENDS/CHALLENGES TO GLOBAL
FOOD SECURITY
Population growth
and urbanization
Climate Change

5. RISING FOOD PRICES AND
POVERTY
RISING FOOD PRICES AND
POVERTY Greatly affects the small farmers and peasants
Harmful to those farming households that are net
consumers of food and rely on the market to fulfill
their food security needs.
Often resorts to selling their valuable assets.
Has an impact on their ability to lift themselves
out of poverty

6. It is a measure of the monthly change in
international prices of a basket of food
commodities.
Food Price IndexFood Price Index

7. POPULATION GROWTH AND
URBANIZATION
POPULATION GROWTH AND
URBANIZATION
Continuous population growth.
Dramatic improvements in health have lead to
sharp declines in mortality rates and boosts in life
expectancy.
Mass movement of people migrating from rural to
urban areas in recent decades.

10. Changing global temperatures have different impacts on
different countries.
Low income developing countries lacks or do not have access
to basic amenities such as clean drinking water.
Developing countries are threatened by widespread
environmental degradation such as pollution and deforestation.
CLIMATE CHANGECLIMATE CHANGE

11. Maxwell’s Three
paradigm Shift
on Food Security
Maxwell’s Three
paradigm Shift
on Food Security

12. when the academic and policy discourse on food
security veered away from the restrictive notion
of food availability and supply as the core concern
of food security.First Shift (1970’s
and 1980’s)
First Shift (1970’s
and 1980’s)

13. Second Shift stressed the
importance of livelihood
security as a key household
priority and component of
food security.
Second ShiftSecond Shift

14. Third Shift moved away from a purely caloriecounting
approach to food security, to one that incorporates
subjective measures of what it means to be food
secure, including access to food that is preferable. -
Some of the Criticisms
* disregard for power relation
* emphasis on a trade-based approach
Third ShiftThird Shift

15. In your opinion, who plays
the biggest role in ensuring
food security?
In your opinion, who plays
the biggest role in ensuring
food security? A. Government B. Farmers C. Consumers Write your answer in the comments

16. THANK YOUTHANK YOU