CHAPTER 4: FOOD AND NUTRITION
SECURITY
Sustainable Food System For Food And Nutrition Security
Factors Underlying The Current Status Of Food And Nutrition Security. :
Agricultural Development: Key To Food And Nutrition Security
Food Security
People have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life
The economic,social and environmental bases are important to generate food security and nutrition for future generations.
Food system metric indicators
SFS is a food system that delivers food security and nutrition for all in such a way that it profit throughout, has broad- based benefits for society and has a positive or neutral impact.
✅ Sociocultural wellbeing
✅ Resilience
✅ Food affordability and availability
✅ Food safety
✅ Ecosystem stability
✅ Waste & loss reduction
Agricultural development plays important role to poverty reduction, in the context of economic development and growth as a whole.
Agricultural development is critically important to improving food security and nutrition.
Relationship between food security, sustainable food system and sustainable agricultural development.
⚠ Sustainable food system are food system that ensure food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security.
⚠ Sustainable agricultural development is agricultural development that contributes to improving resources efficiency, strengthening resilience and securing social equity of agricultural.
Its roles include increasing the quantity and diversity of food, driving economic transformation, providing the primary source of income for many of the world's poorest people.
🚩 Biofuel generation and agricultural commodities
🚩 Climate, agriculture and food security
🚩 Food pricing & food security
National food availability
Individual utilization
Global food availability
Household food security
In reality, vast numbers of people remain
undernourished.
Global food availability need of all people in the
world, provided the food was equally distributed.
Food availability at the national level is based on
food balance sheets compiled by FAO per country.
Amount of food available for consumption by a
country’s population. Compiled by FAO per country.
Physiological access body’s ability to use nutrients for growth and development affected by health conditions.
Decision to choose depends of availability and accessibility of food. Selection depends on knowledge, culture, food preferences, habits, foodsafety and practices.
Access to an adequate food supply
Access to stable food supply
Access to food supply
🏴 Economic
🏴 Socio - political access
🏴 Physical
⭐ Nutritional adequacy
⭐ Food safety
⭐ Socio-cultural availability
🔒 Stability or sustainability of food throughout the year/over time
Food Security System In Malaysia :
Food security in dependent on agricultural sector. In Malaysia, food is produced through agriculture, while the shortage is supported by imports.
Agro-food sector deals with prolonged heat conditions that cause drought and heavy rain which the resulting in massive flood.
✅ Food nutrient adequacy