What do you mean by food security?
Food security means to have physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life
Four Components of food security:
Availability of food
Access to food
Food security
Utilization of food
Agriculture and Food Security:
Agriculture is vital to our survival and one of the main food sources for poor people in rural areas. Today more food than ever is produced on our planet, enough to cover everyone’s needs for food. But at the same time, more than 800 million people live with hunger because they do not have enough food, mainly in South Asia and Africa. Also, agriculture is considered to be one of the greatest threats to our environment because it contributes to global warming, biodiversity loss and makes it difficult for nature to contribute to human well-being in the same way as before.
This is why it is important to create more productive and climate and environmentally sustainable agriculture. Sustainable agriculture not only contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and preservation and development of biodiversity and ecosystems. It also means less soil erosion and deforestation and that it will be easier for people to support themselves and get out of poverty.
Effects of food insecurity:-
First let’s understand what leads to food insecurity from the above picture. Poverty, poor nutrition among children, adults includes greater risk for chronic disease and poor mental health.
How do we get food security?
Use fertilizers more efficiently
Raise low water productivity
Target food for direct consumption
Close the yield gap
Reduce food waste
Threats to the food security :
World population growth
Increase demand for food
Food price
Disapperance of the variety of agricultural plant species
Increase in the area of scarcity water
Limitation of the availability of land
Food loss and food waste
Information and knowledge are not enough for effective nutrition care and support without household food security.YOU can change your food habits and be healthy.
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