sustainable strategies to support countries​ ​with food crisis
food sustainability challenge
What is Food security:
Food security is the state of having access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Places like Australia, America, Europe and many more have food security however in second world countries like India many people suffer food insecurity which is the lack of a reliable source of needed food and nutrition.
Why are people lacking food security:
Poverty is unmistakably the driving factor in the lack of resources to purchase or otherwise get food, but the root causes of poverty are multiple different things. Poverty, combined with other socioeconomic and political problems, creates the most of food insecurity around the globe.
Many political-agricultural practices contribute to food insecurity worldwide. These include substituting commodity crops for food crops (e.g., growing corn instead of vegetables) and heavy exportation of food crops at the expense of food security of the exporting country.
The recent demand for biofuels, currently made primarily from corn and soy, has further decreased the amount of viable arable land being used for food production.
Globally, natural disasters, such as droughts and cyclones, are big reasons for why food insecurity affects certain countries. It is predicted that climate change may negatively affect food supply and food access due to loss of farmland, changes with food prices and increases in food borne illnesses.