Get Connected: Food Security This issue of Get Connected: Food Security is FREE to download. It explores issues of food insecurity and how global citizens respond to these challenges. Inside you’ll find up-to-date case studies from Bangladesh and Timor-Leste, a debate on genetically modified crops and a food supply chain. This resource also features written and digital texts, photographs, a climate graph, map reading and cloze activities that help students understand food security. This issue addresses the Australian Curriculum in Geography, English, Civics and Citizenship, and Food Technology. Download now Global food inequality – simulation game instructions available here Food and the environment (3.27) Tamin’s Story (2.15) Youth Ambassadors in Timor-Leste (2.01) Sofia’s Story (2.59)
Report 2010 - Reflections on the global food crisis How Did It Happen? How Has It Hurt? And How Can We Prevent the Next One? The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world’s poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. Breaking from many earlier interpretations, the authors conclude that the crisis was not primarily fostered by increased demand for meat products in rising economies such as China and India, or by declines in agricultural yields or food stocks, or by futures market speculation. Instead, they attribute the rising food prices to a combination of rising energy prices; growing demand for biofuels; the U.S. dollar depreciation; and various trade shocks related to export restrictions, panic purchases, and unfavorable weather. Click to launch the full edition in a new window Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Food Security Sustainable Agriculture and Global Poverty - Caritas Australia Although the world produces enough food to feed every woman, man and child, nearly one billion people go hungry every day. We believe that hunger is not caused by a lack of food, but rather a lack of justice. Levels of food production are sufficient, yet millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation. This is truly scandalous.” Pope Francis, 2013 In 2014 around 805 million people – about one in nine of the world’s population – were chronically undernourished. Some regions of the world are particularly at risk: in Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, more than one in four people were undernourished in 2014. Food security and insecurity Food security is having year-round access to nutritious, affordable and sustainable food for an active and healthy lifestyle. However, as the statistics above show, not everyone in the world enjoys secure access to food. Food sovereignty What can you do to help improve food sovereignty? Our Caritas approach Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Report 2010 - Proven successes in agricultural development A technical compendium to Millions Fed The world has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. While, in 1960, roughly 30 percent of the world’s population suffered from hunger and malnutrition, today less than 20 percent does—some five billion people now have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. This book examines where, why, and how past interventions in agricultural development have succeeded. The technical studies in this compendium, along with the introductory analysis and the final chapter on trends in impact assessment, should be of great interest to researchers and policymakers concerned with assuring that agricultural development leads to significantly improved food security. Click to launch the full edition in a new window Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
How can food security be achieved in the future? Here are five ways that food production and food security can be improved so that perhaps, by 2050, the global demand for 70 per cent more food will in part be met. In so doing, local communities, in particular small-scale farmers and those farming in challenging environmental situations, will have a better life. 1: Fair Trade 2: Local Food Security Reserves 3: Agroecology 4: Initiatives by and for small-scale farmers 5: Less food wastage 1: Fair Trade 1. 2. What is the main aim of Fair Trade? 3. The Power of Fair Trade List all the ways the local community benefited once Fair Trade was implemented. 2: Local Food Security Reserves In the western Africa country of Burkina Faso food security reserves were set up to provide food security when the unpredictable weather conditions reduced food production. 1. 2. 3. 3: Agroecology Agroecology is the use of ecological processes to design and manage agricultural production and create sustainable farming systems. Source: Oxfam International 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
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