Friday, May 23, 2008
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What You Should Know About Food Security
Do you know what is really implied by the term "food security"? Do you know who are the key organizations supporting international food aid? What can you do to help sustain food security? Did you know having sufficient food is not always equal to food security? Read on to find out more.
What does food security imply?
Food And Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that food security exists when:
All people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
In other words, these three conditions must exist simultaneously, at the same time before a country can be said to have attained food security.
How do countries tackle the issue of food security?
There are two fundamental approaches on tackling food security, namely food self-sufficiency and income self-sufficiency.
When countries adopt a food self-sufficiency policy, this means it :
- Intentionally attempts to increase scale of domestic production to match domestic consumption, and then store the surplus of food produced locally for domestic use.
- When a famine breaks out, the surplus stored is then given out to the public by the government at low, affordable prices if not otherwise free.
- In short, domestic production of food accounts for a huge proportion of domestic consumption in the country.
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