The Effects Of Food Security On A Global Level

Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.

When asked the question "who in the United states is food-insecure?" one must first answer the question of what it means to have food security in America. Food security is defined by Edelstein (2010) as "assured access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life, as well as access to enough food that is safe, nutritious, and acquired in a socially acceptable way." (pg. 71). Hunger would then be considered the absence of food. According to statistics by the Feeding America Organization, in 2014 they reported that 48.1 million Americans where considered to be food-insecure, with 32.8 of them being adults while 15.3 were children (2014). I believe that is also important to characterize where exactly Americans are more likely to be in this category. These same statistics also showed that there was a correlation of region when it came to Americans being more food-insecure. This region was shown to be the southern states of the US, as states like Texas, Kentucky and Louisiana all were in the top

Poverty is a huge issue which never seems to ever go away or be fixed. There are many options as to what can be done to eliminate poverty but, not all options please everyone. John Kenneth Galbraith in his essay “The Position of Poverty” argues that “to eliminate poverty, we must invest more than proportionately in the children of the poor community (Jacobus). Money has been a very important tool that has divided the world and given humans labels as wealthy or poor. The wealthy seem to have worked hard for what they have but others not so much. Poverty has been growing and it has been spreading across the world. Those people who are poor sometimes have no chance to exit the poverty that have been in because of very little supplies or just not a great community or environment, some with very little food and they just give up and never keep trying to exit this moment in their lives. The rich must make an effort to try and redistribute the money in our nation to eliminate poverty for good.

Food insecurity doesn’t just affect poor nations. Yes, even in wealthy nations we have people that go to bed on an empty stomach. According to Feeding America, in 2016, nearly 41.2 million people live in households with high food-insecurity (Hunger and, n.d.). The great majority of those that suffer from food-insecurity are adults, who account for 28.3 million of the total, and children who account for 12.9 million of the total (Hungry and, n.d.). The elderly are also affected as 5.4 million seniors in 2015 suffered from food-insecurity (Hunger in, n.d.). The rate of food-insecure seniors is expected to increase by 50 percent “when the youngest of the baby-boom generation reaches 60 in 2025” (Hungry and, n.d.). The United States, among other wealthy nations, has its own issues regarding hunger within their borders. How can they feed the people of poorer nations if it has its own people to feed?

Poverty has been a long-lasting economic crisis in the world. The effects are drastic not only on the world’s economic stability but the stability and well-being of many people as well. Change is needed. True change is the hope many citizens have living in poverty due to a broken, damaged system regarding poverty. To make the world a better, suitable place to live, immediate action must be taken to finally resolve this issue.

population, however, one in nine are food insecure. Food security, defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security is “the condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, economic and social access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.” Developing countries are most at risk of food insecurity with Sub-Saharan Africa having the highest prevalence of hunger.

Is it possible to eradicate poverty? In an effort to combat worldwide poverty, the United Nations established a fifteen-year global initiative centered on eight globally

Some problems with the global food system are its limited Food Access and its food waste. The inability to access sufficient amounts of food is an issue that happens to populations around the globe. Worldwide, about 795 million people suffer from chronic undernourishment, and about fifteen percent of households in the U.S. lack food to some degree. More than 29 million Americans live in places where they do not have a supermarket within a mile of their home. On top of the absence of these markets, limited mobility, economic barriers, and a lack of fresh food options prevent certain low-income communities from obtaining healthy and affordable food. This problem has only been exacerbated by the farm policy incentives that drive an excess production of sweets, fats, and meats, and producers choosing to cut costs through extensive food processing and use of high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soy oil to increase

There are some of the most devastating situations in which a family cannot afford food with nutritional value, such as the healthy food that they need every day to survive. A perfect example of that is a term called “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is the term that you use for individuals who struggle to put healthy food on the table because of their financial needs, such as simply not being able to afford it. Families who are like this more often than most of the time result in obesity. Obesity occurs in these circumstances because they are only able to afford the foods with the cheapest prices and therefore incredibly low nutritional value. People who are food insecure are more likely to become obese than those who do not struggle with

The concept of food security is dynamic, that is continuously incorporated new dimensions and levels of analysis overtime. This ongoing evolution of food security concept indicates the wider recognition of the difficulties of concept in different areas of research and public policy, for the reason that food security issue has long history starting from time when global food crisis take place in the first half of the 1970s (Clay, E. 2002).

Food sustainability is a multi-faceted and complex topic that has social, economic, and environmental components. Food sustainability’s goal is to provide enough food for all people and to accomplish this goal in a way that doesn’t negatively impact the environment and can be done in an economical way. Food sustainability is important because as the world population keeps growing, food production will have to increase in order to meet this new demand. In an article published by Science Magazine, scientists identify the issue of food sustainability. They state that , “continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years” (Feb 10, 2010, pg. 812, H. Chalres Godfray, John Beddington, Ian Crute, Lawrence Haddad, David Lawrence, James Muir, Jules Pretty, Sherman Robinson, Sandy Thomas, and Camilla Toulmin). In other words, by 2050, the world population will be about 9 billion people and thus food production will have to meet the rising population. Food sustainability is also important because there are people around the world that currently don’t have food to eat. According to the World Food Program, there are 795 million people in the world that currently do not have enough food to live a healthy life. In addition, the majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, with Asia containing the most hungry people. When talking about food sustainability, there are many parties and

Poverty. A word that has haunted the world for years. Poverty is know to one of the most pressing issues of today. Its a known fact that almost half of the world lives on $2.50 a day not only this but roughly one billion children live in poverty. Although the we have driven these numbers down substantially, the question arises. Will poverty ever be eradicated permanently?

There is enough food to feed everyone in the world; nearly 1 billion people suffer from hunger while others are obese. Every day, millions of people in the world; particularly in poor countries, suffer from hunger, the scarcity of food. Many of them die because they struggle a lot to fulfill this need. However, governments, organizations and citizens try hard to find solutions to eradicate this problem. Poverty is factor associated with food insecurity. To eliminate hunger organizations and government should fight poverty above all.

Coxe has studied the sector for more than 35 years as a strategist for BMO Financial Group. He says it didn’t have to come to this. “We’ve got a situation where there has been no incentive to allocate significant new capital to agriculture or to develop new technologies to dramatically expand crop output.”

The realization of national food security is a key objective in the agricultural sector. A recent research showed that over 10million people are food insecure with majority of these people living on food relief. The government of Kenya with the support of various organizations has worked to ensure that the Kenyans are food secure.