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Food Security and Food Insecurity - Coggle Diagram
Food Security and Food Insecurity
Factors affecting food security:
Climate:
Higher temperatures and unreliable rainfall affect food availablity, making the prices icncrease
Conflict:
War forces farmers to flee their land or to fight in conflict
Income inequality, lagging economic growth, declining wages and rising unemployment:
challenge people's access to nutritious food and essential services
Technology:
Improvements in technology have increased the amount of food available
Loss of farmland:
The growth of the biofuel market is taking up valuable farmland which is then not used for food
Pests and diseases:
Pesticides have increased crop yields
Water stress:
Irrigation systems provide water for countries with unreliable or low rainfall, allowing food to grow
Poverty:
When people have less money, they cannot afford food and they become unable to work
Zero Hunger Goal:
Ensure that all people have access to safe nutritious and sufficient food and to end all forms of malnutrition.
Food security:
When the entire population of a country has access to enough safe and nutritious food to maintain an active life.
Consequences of food insecurity
Overweight and obesity
Uncertainties about obtaining food
Malnourished children
Diet, related chronic diseases
Low birth-wight and stunded growth
Big economical costs in the future
Psychological changes, incresing the risk of obesity
Malnourished children
Possible Solutions
Help breeders select beneficial traits
reclaim natural variation in our corps
advance agriculture through genomics and phenomics.
Research fish species vital to aquaculture
Greater investments
More targeted efforts
Work togetehr with international collaboration