Hello, you are welcome to this blog today we will be looking at a very important topic that should be of great interest to you. We will be looking at food insecurity. There are so many people,society and country battling with food insecurity, we have a lot of hunger and starvation all around. I will be looking to answer food related questions. Thanks for reading through
WHAT IS FOOD INSECURITY?
Food insecurity is when people lack sustainable physical or economic access to enough safe, nutritious, and socially acceptable food for a healthy and safe living which thus lead to hunger and starvation.
DO YOU KNOW MORE THAN 800 MILLION PEOPLE LIVES WITH HUNGER IN THIS WORLD PRESENTLY
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF FOOD INSECURITY?
The following are the causes of food insecurity
War
Climate change
Diseases Outbreak
Poor storage facilities
Drought and other extreme weather event
Bad leaders in charge of helm of affairs
Cash crops dependency
WHICH COUNTRIES ARE AFFECTED WITH FOOD INSECURITY?
According to FAO, the following counties are affected with food insecurity:
Africa. Angola. Burkina Faso. Burundi. Central African Republic. Chad. Democratic Republic of Congo. Republic of Congo. Côte d'Ivoire. Eritrea. Ethiopia, Nigeria and many more other African countries
Asia/Near East. Afghanistan. Indonesia. Iraq. Dem. People's Rep. of Korea. Lebanon. Mongolia. Nepal and many more
Latin America/Caribbean. Colombia. Cuba. Haiti.
Europe. Russian Federation (Chechnya)
WHAT DOES FOOD INSECURITY LEADS TO?
THe following are the result of food insecurity:
Hunger
Starvation
Diseases outbreak
Death
Poor living standard
WHO ARE THE MOST AFFECTED?
The most affected falls in to three groups and they are:
Children
Women
People with Disabilities
WHY SHOULD I CARE?
They are human being like you
They need your love and support
If nothing is done about it , it could lead to massive migration to countries where there is food security thereby collapsing the world system
WHAT IS THE WAY OUT?
Developed countries needs to put more pressure on leaders of developing country to prioritise food security for their people
Education
Countries should move from subsistence farming to mechanized farming
Corruption should be fight till when totally rooted out
Effective and good storage system should be built
International donors and world bodies should as a matter of urgency help the affected countries out
