Seminar Project: Food Security

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Seminar Project Food Security

• By JP Chalupowski, Cale Potter, Evan Rice,
  Morgan Macmillan

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What is Food Security?

• Food security is the availability of food and
  ones access to it.
• The opposite is food insecurity when you do not
  have the availability of food and access to it.
•  The World Health Organization is a specialized
  agency of the United Nations (UN) that is
  concerned with international public health. Their
  objective is to attain the highest possible level
  of health for all people.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) define three
  factors of Food Security
• Food Availability-Having Sufficient amounts of
  food consistently,
• Food Access- Having sufficient resources
  economic/physical and,
• Food Use- Approximate use based on knowledge of
  basic nutrition and care.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization adds a
  fourth fact The stability of the first
  dimensions of Food Security over time.

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Risk Factors

• There are many risk factors that lead to food
  insecurity such as Droughts, Fuel shortages,
  Shipping disruptions, Economic Stability, Wars
  and much, much more.
• This photograph on the right displays the effects
  of a Drought. Extremely dry climate leads to many
  deaths from a lack of food and water.

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MDCs LDCs

• Although countries may desire a high
  self-sufficiency rate to avoid transport risks,
  this may be difficult to achieve especially for
  wealthy countries, because there are higher
  regional production costs.
• LDCs and MDCs both have food security and food
  insecurity. Part of that has to do with money,
  but it also has to do with population. For
  instance, MDCs will almost always have more money
  than LDCs, but if an MDC has a high population
  with high demand there will be some food
  insecurity. Or, LDCs might not have much money
  causing food insecurity but they could have a low
  population, therefore less mouths to feed.

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Environmental Factors

• Natural disasters have been constantly implicated
  in food insecurity. Climate change and disasters
  can destroy farm land, and slow the food
  distribution process. Other environmental factors
  such as degrading soil, erosion, soil pollution
  and desertification also create food insecurity.
• Photo on the left is am example of the effects of
  Erosion

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Industrialization

• Food itself has become industrialized, factories
  making food and mass-producing.
• Example All the fast food in the world (Wendys,
  Mcdonalds, Dairy Queen and more)
• Food distribution and environmental factors are
  reasons behind lack of food access and food
  security.

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Food Distribution

• When you go to the supermarket, (Sobeys,
  Superstore in our case) have you ever wondered
  how all the food got there? Food distribution is
  the term used to explain this. We get our food
  from all over the world, the food you eat is
  transported or distributed across the world to a
  supermarket near you.
• It is typically transported by refrigerated
  trucks, mainly so that it can maintain high
  quality when it reaches the final desination.

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Effects of Not Having Food Security

• On an individual level food insecurity over time
  can cause physical, social, and physiological
  problems in both children and adults. Food
  insecurity on a bigger scale can also lead to
  political instability and conflict. This could
  lead to food riots when the population of a
  country protests its lack of food. This on a
  huge scale could lead to war.

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Animated Video

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPiYDG11zIUs

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Resources

• http//i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02398/
  drought_2398818b.jpg
• http//atlanticadaptation.ca/sites/discoveryspace.
  upei.ca.acasa/files/Erosion20at20Derby20-20GMa
  cDougall20(2003).jpg
• www.gracelinks.org/280/food-security-food-access
• http//csatimes.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/F
  ood-Security.jpg
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPiYDG11zIUs
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organiza
  tion