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Food Security meaning at National Level, Solutions to hunger, Poverty,…
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Solutions to hunger
Governments responsibility: Those in the business of food civil society organizations and the public all have their own part to play, to ensure that we create a society where everyone can buy safe healthy affordable nutritious food. This may mean drawing a policy that supports productive agriculture and that regulates food markets to be competitive and fair for consumers.
Producing our own food: producing at home is a good idea but it won't solve the problem. Addressing hunger and malnutrition in our poorer communities isn't about producing more food but about making sure poor people can access the food that's already there. There's no single answer and there's no quick fix.
Banning fast foods: Maybe there should be a ban on advertising fast foods to children or we could put a tax on unhealthy foods just the way cigarettes and alcohol carry syntax to make them less affordable. Some people suggest- banning fast food outlets from within a certain distance of schools, banning some foods like salt mealie meal, etc. Wheat flour is already fortified with nutrients to slip extra vitamins and minerals into people's diets
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Reduce wastage: A third of all food produced is lost or wasted along the food value chain. That's not just a waste of the food itself but all the resources needed to grow and ship that food like soil, water, energy and fertilizers.
Food Gardens: Cities need to be redesigned to encourage more exercise, more food gardens and easier access to fresh foods that we need to keep our girl children in school.
Girl Education: Girls who are better educated are more likely to marry later in life have fewer children and earn more. So this is a key step in breaking the cycle of locked in poverty.
Poverty
•Daily wages/weekly payments: to buy food the breadwinner in one family may get paid every Friday and run short of money by Wednesday the following week. Another family may get paid at the end of every month and run out of money in the last week
• The hungry season that time when there's little or no food in the house arrives at different times for each family and they may share borrow or exchange food and meals in order to cope. The most vulnerable some people might collect food from rubbish bins or from city dump sites while others may have to resort to begging or prostitution.
Unemployment: About every family in South Africa depends on having money to buy food. This means they need a job or a social guard or a small business to generate some kind of income, but over a quarter of South Africa's labor force is unemployed. Families get some money from a social grant.
insufficient funds: For instance a thousand and eighty round a month for a granny's pension and two grants of 250 round each for two children that's 1580 round per month if that's the only income for a family of five for instance that means they have about 10 grand per person per day for food but many families have to spend that money on other things too like taxi fair, school fees electricity telephone air time that doesn't leave much for the basics. People have many different ways to cope when they don't have
Access: Poor people do not have access to the food in supermarkets. They need money and they need to be close to those shops. Supermarket food may be cheaper because their bulk buying power drives down prices but informal traders and spas are shops in poorer communities. They are an important support system for people even though the food may be more expensive. It's closer to the home and the trader may give a family credit which a supermarket won't do.
Foodbanks/ food services: who use their small pension grants to make food which they give to sick people in their community so they can take their antiretroviral medicine on a full stomach, soup kitchens and school feeding schemes often provide poorer people with their only meal of the day.
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Gender
• Women and Poverty: most of the world's poor are women because women end up in lower paying, less skilled jobs or earn less than men even at the same level of skill.
• Under paid: They don't get paid for the many hours they work looking after the family. They're more likely to carry the cost of looking after kids. Pregnancy and early childcare disrupt women's education and work opportunities.
• In South Africa more and more households are headed up by women since the head of the house is usually the chief earner. It's more likely that a woman headed household will have a smaller income than a male head at household. There is a strong link between income, poverty and food security in households. So it's hardly surprising then that women headed households tend to be the most food insecure because their bread winner earns less. But surprisingly when these women centered households are compared with traditional husband and wife headed families of the same income level there are as food secure. This isn't just because women allocate a bit more of the budget to food than men, women also tend to buy more nutritious foods they spend more time cooking them and allocate food more fairly than in other household types.
• So any efforts to address stunting and malnutrition in children and broader issues of food security in poor homes, there is a need to pay close attention to lifting women out of poverty. It could be through social grant systems, improved access to education and jobs or education around nutrition.
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