Food Security

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime. ~BanKi-moon, United Nations Secretary-General

Creating and Developing Awareness

The World Food Programme (WFP) defines food security as people having the availability and adequate access to food at all times that is safe and nutritious in order to maintain a healthy and active life. The organization breaks food security into three categories:

• Availability: Food must be available in sufficient quantities and on a consistent basis.It considers stock and production in a given area and the capacity to bring in food from elsewhere, through trade or aid.
• Food access: People must be able to regularly acquire adequate quantities of food, through purchase, home production, barter, gifts, borrowing or food aid.
• Food utilization: Consumed food must have a positive nutritional impact on people. It entails cooking, storage and hygiene practices, individuals ‘health, water and sanitations, feeding and sharing practices within the household https://www.wfp.org/food-security-analysis)

WFP has adopted one of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Goal # 2 – Zero Hunger) to end hunger by 2030.

Currently 1 in 9 people go to bed with an empty stomach or about 795 million people worldwide. One in 3 of that number suffer from some form of malnutrition.

Educate, Inform and Create Inspiration

The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) developed by the International Food Policy Research should hunger worldwide was reduced by 27% since 2000, but it still remains a serious issue in 52 countries.

The GHI created a formula to score countries based on four indicators:

Undernourishment: the proportion of undernourished people as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake);

Wasting: the proportion of children under the age of five who suffer from wasting (that is, low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition);

Child Stunting: the proportion of children under the age of five who suffer from stunting (that is, low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition); and

Child Mortality: the mortality rate of children under the age of five (partially reflecting the fatal synergy of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).

What This Looks Like in Real Life (Stories and Case Studies)

Skills Development and Activities

How to Implement or Put into Action

Source Links:

https://www.wfp.org/

http://www.ifpri.org/publication/2015-global-hunger-index-armed-conflict-and-challenge-hunger