1. Food Insecurity

2. Food Insecurity Hunger is a symptom of food insecurity
Food insecurity: a condition in which people lack sufficient, appropriate, and reliable food intake to provide them with the energy and nutrients for fully productive lives
Food insecurity can be measured on a scale of 1 to 4:
Feeling anxious about lack of food
Compromising on the quality of the foods by choosing less expensive options
Feelings of hunger
Not eating at all

3. Nutrition security
Nutrition security is affected by political, economic, social, familial and environmental factors

4. Nutrition security Global Food Availability National Food Production
National Net Imports of Food
National Food Availability
Household Income
Other Basic Needs and Nonnecessities
Health
Care
Household Food Access
Food Security

5. “Volatile Food Prices Grab G-20’s Full Attention,”
Why are politicians becoming more involved with the issue of food insecurity?
The radio broadcast reports that many organizations predict food prices to double in upcoming years. If this happens, what do you think the political effects will be? What about the humanitarian effects?

6. Micro level food security
Individual and household food security
year-round access to an adequate supply of nutritious and safe food to meet the needs of all family members
Household food security is concerned with equitable food distribution, food production, acquisition, utilization and consumption

7. Macro level food security
National food security occurs when a country has adequate and assured supplies of food to meet the needs of all of its people.
It depends on:
stable food supplies and secure access to food supplies
National agricultural production,
international trade and economic interdependence,
national policies related to food production, processing, and distribution
available resources

8. Macro level food security
Global food security means having sufficient food to feed all the worlds people and ensuring the right to food for all
This depends on:
adequate global food production,
equitable control of food production, processing and distribution,
fair and effective policies related to agriculture and food production, trade agreements, subsidies, and tariffs,
efficient world responses to food crises
International food aid programs
Sustainable agricultural practices

9. Nigeria
“Nigeria Families Left Hungry” PBS Newshour, April 15, 2009, By Fred De Sam Lazaro
Questions:
What type of food insecurity (lack of food or lack of nutrition) is the most prevalent in Nigeria?
What factors foster food insecurity in Nigeria? [Possible answers: dry season, lack of government support, price instability]
What conclusions can you draw about the role of government in ensuring food security from this video?

10. India
2. “India’s Growing Problem, Food Production” PBS News Hour, September 14, 2009, By Fred De Sam Lazaro
Questions:
What type of food insecurity (lack of food or lack of nutrition) is the most prevalent in India?
How big a role does water availability play into food security in India?
What impact will additional water pumps, dry season cropping, fertilizers, pesticides and other food insecurity solutions have on the environment?

11. Guatemala
“Guatemala’s Children Languish from Malnutrition” World Focus, October 8, 2009, By Samuel Lowenberg
Questions:
What type of food insecurity (lack of food or lack of nutrition) is the most prevalent in Guatemala?
How does extreme poverty contribute to the food insecurity problem in Guatemala?
What is stunting? How else does malnutrition affect children? How serious are the side effects of malnutrition?

12. Post Video reflection
What are the main factors that contributed to food insecurity in all 3 videos?
. Was it lack of government support, environmental degradation, lack of resources (water, seeds, fertilizer, ect), or poverty? Is it a combination of these factors? Which factors have the biggest impact?

13. Components of food security
Availability: sufficient food for all people
Accessibility: physical and economic access to food for all
Adequacy: access to food that is nutritious, safe, and produced in environmentally sustainable ways
Acceptability: access to culturally acceptable food, which is produced and obtained in ways that do not compromise people’s dignity, self-respect or human rights
Agency: the policies and processes that enable the achievement of food security