Food Security Essay

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Food security is having a stable nutritional food source and having enough food accessible to fulfil the needs of people, it is essential for human life. To maintain reliable foods sources, we change the world’s biomes by things such as: clearing vegetation diverting and storing water and changing landforms. To ensure that we have enough food for future years we will need to carefully manage our food supplies and land and water resources and use more sustainable farming practices. The five main issues of food security are accessibility: is the food accessible to people when they need it, stability: are there enough stable food sources to ensure food for future years, acceptability: is the food acceptable for every diet, culture and country, availability: is the food readily available when needed, and adequacy: is the food safe and nutritious and produced in environmentally sustainable ways. The GFC (Global Food Crisis) refers to the decreasing amount of food and the large amount of people going hungry. It is caused by poverty, population, conflict (war), natural disasters, decrease in land and the way food is used and stored. Food insecurity usually occurs in rural areas of Africa and Asia. One of the most food insecure countries in the world is Zimbabwe. The situation in Zimbabwe was spun into a crisis as a result of underlying factors. Firstly the politics and government in Zimbabwe were unstable and the government had been accused for poor governance. Secondly the economic situation was quickly spiralling downwards with high unemployment of 50 to 60 percent and the closures of factories and businesses due to the small amount of pay. This along with the large reduction in foreign exchange from sales of tobacco, gold and c...

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... population Australia will also face problems such as: declining growth in agricultural production, the threat of climate change, and increasing competition for land and water. At the moment there are issues with feeding the world from our biomes. To farm we need land. This leads to destruction and degradation of grasslands. Already around 53 percent of Australia’s land is used for farming. The ideal food system for the future would be one that is healthy and sustainable and focuses on the health of the environment, economic vitality and human and social equity. We must ensure we have a healthy and stable production of food without compromising the environment for future years. We also must ensure that farmers and food producers earn a decent wage so that they can continue to produce our food and that healthy foods are available to the community at all times.

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