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Food security - Coggle Diagram

- - - - national food availability
        
        Debatable of its importance as a factor in food security - literature suggests poverty could play a much stronger role
        
        one study using child-malnutrition as a proxy found little correlation b/t national food availability and food insecurity ((Lisa) Smith, 1999)
      - poverty restricting peoples access to food
        
        supported by Smith 1999
        
        'countries with high pov and food surplus displayed highest severity of food insecurity
        
        Amartya Sen
    - - common prevalent perception of famine with lack of food availability caused an overeliance on domestic agri solutions
        
        food security problems generally stem from other causes.
  - - - identifying at risk households
        
        required to prevent economic and physical causes of a shift to hunger
      - targeting interventions
- - - - agricultural productivity
        
        indirectly relating to food security
        
        no multifaceted dimension taken into account with these measures.
      - food storage
      - children's nutriitional status
  - - - how, where and when different aspects of the food security concept are more important than others has not been recognised by the international communtiy
  - - - previously
        
        macro supply
      - After Sen's proposed arguements
        
        food access at a household level
        
        'the ability of households to obtain food in marketplace or from other sources" (Webb, 2006)
- - - - Positive reinforcement