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Global Food Security (The Challenge of Feeding The World)

The document discusses the links between poverty, food security, and human security, particularly in the face of food price spikes. Sharp increases in food prices most severely impact the poor in developing countries in Asia and Africa. These price spikes can also fuel civil unrest through protests and riots. Recent food crises may have forced over 100 million people into poverty and food insecurity. A range of complex and interconnected forces influence global food systems and prices, including population growth, rising incomes, climate change, and biofuel production. The Philippines has the highest number of food insecure people in Southeast Asia, with over 59 million Filipinos suffering from lack of consistent access to food.

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Global Food Security (The Challenge of Feeding The World)

The document discusses the links between poverty, food security, and human security, particularly in the face of food price spikes. Sharp increases in food prices most severely impact the poor in developing countries in Asia and Africa. These price spikes can also fuel civil unrest through protests and riots. Recent food crises may have forced over 100 million people into poverty and food insecurity. A range of complex and interconnected forces influence global food systems and prices, including population growth, rising incomes, climate change, and biofuel production. The Philippines has the highest number of food insecure people in Southeast Asia, with over 59 million Filipinos suffering from lack of consistent access to food.

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The links between poverty, food security, and human security are

particularly evident in the face of food price spikes, in two significant


ways:
First, sudden and sharp increases in food are most harmful to those
who are poor – in many developing countries in Asia and Africa.
Second, it may also help fuel civil unrest in the forms of protest and
riots

Food Security
and Human Security
The Future of food security relies on how the
states and other actors respond to a range of
Complex, interconnected and multifaceted
forces affecting food systems around the world

Human
Biogeophysical
Environment

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PRODUCTION CONSUMPTION
The impact of recent food prices spikes has been most devastating
for those who live in, or precariously close to, poverty.

It is estimated that the 2007-08 global food price crisis may have
been forced as many as 100 million people deeper into poverty,
while the more recent global food price spike in 2010-11 may have
consigned an additional 44 million around the globe to a life of
poverty and food insecurity (Rartello and Pugh, 2011.)
Sharp and sudden increases in food prices are
detrimental to small farmers who often lack the capacity
to respond to such price increases in time to be able to
take advantage of them.
They are also harmful to those farming households that
are net consumers of food and rely on the market to
fulfill their food security needs
To uplift themselves into poverty, other
households also often resort to selling precious
assets such as:
-House Hold Belongings
-Mortgaging land
-Signing High Interest Load
Experts gave pointed to several complex and
interconnected factors as having contributed to these surge
in global food prices in varying degrees.
-Demand Side
-Supply Side (Fuel, Agricultural Supplies)
-Trade
-Government
Population
Growth and
Urbanization
The Argument that a gradually rising global population is
behind sharp and sudden increases in global food prices is
a dubious one.
This does not mean however that the key demographic
changes currently taking place around the world are
inconsequential for food systems.
By 2050, the world is set to reach 9 Billion
-Comes from Asia and Africa
Youth
move from To Rural Area
rural

Moreover, the growing number of households in rural areas


across Asia are now headed by women, who tend to lack access
to the same socio-economic rights as their male counter parts
Rising
Incomes and
Changing Diets
An Overall growing global population means a
corresponding increase in the total demand for food at
the global level.
-Rising Urbanization
-Growing per capita food consumption
Average 2370 kcal in 1970’s to 2770 kcal 2005
More Income More Food
Biofuel Production,
Land Use Change and
Access to Land
The Global surge in biofuel, production was triggered in
2004-05, when the U.S and the EU adopted a number of
policies and incentives to boost biofuel consumption.

Less fossil
More Biofuel
Fuel
Biofuel production
needs:

-Plant Starch
-Oils
-Animal Fats
-Sugar
Climate
Change

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Climate change affects all four
dimensions of food security: Food
availability, food accessibility, food
utilization, food systems stability
Geographic
location of
poor
countries
“Increased agriculture productivity, stimulus to pre- and post-
harvest interventions, emphasis on private sector growth,
smallholders, women and families, preservation of the natural
resource base, expansion of employment and decent work
opportunities, knowledge and training, increased trade flows,
and support for good governance and policy reform.”

-L’Aquila Summit 2009


Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 16, 2020) — The Philippines
recorded the greatest number of food insecure people in Southeast
Asia in 2017 to 2019, with 59 million Filipinos suffering from moderate
to severe lack of consistent access to food, a United Nations’ Food and
Agriculture Organization report showed.
The number of severe and moderately food insecure Filipinos climbed
from 44.9 million recorded in 2014 to 2016, according to the State of
Food Security and Nutrition in the World report released Wednesday.
FAO defines the severely food insecure as those who have gone a day
or days without eating, due to lack of money and other resources,
while the moderately food insecure are people who have
"experienced uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and have
been forced to compromise on the quantity/quality of the food they
consume."
In 2017 to 2019, at least 18.8 million Filipinos went hungry or
suffered severe food insecurity -- a jump from 12.4 million
recorded in 2014 to 2016, the report showed.
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia — the most populous country in
the region with more than double the Philippines'
populations -- comes second with 18.7 million food insecure
people in 2017-2019. It is followed by Cambodia with 7.2
million; Malaysia with 4.7 million; Vietnam with 6 million and
Singapore with 300 million.
However, food insecurity data for Timor-Leste, Brunei,
Thailand, Laos and Myanmar are unavailable.
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