FOOD DEFICIENCY AND INSECURITY

Definitions....
Food deficiency - insufficient food supply to meet the needs of a
population.
Food insecurity - where people are likely to have insufficient
food and live in fear of starvation.

A SIMPLE QUESTION
Often very simple questions have very complex answers. Heres one
for you to think about..

Why is there large scale food deficiency

and food insecurity if we are increasing
global food production?

Food production 1961 - 2007

Total yields

Food production 1960 - 2005

Yields per hectare

FOOD PRODUCTION DATA

Using the graph on the previous slide,
complete a table to show the % change in
food production between 1960 and 2005
for each of the following regions
1. EU
2. USA
3. SOUTH ASIA
4. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Areas of food sufficiency and

deficiency
In groups try and come up with reasons why
some areas have enough/ too much food, and
some areas have not enough.
Give an example of each area
Split into demographic, political , social and
economic factors
Use pages 467-470 to help

Josette Sheehan is the Head of the

UNs World Food Programme.

Read these questions BEFORE you watch the presentation.

Identify the 5 key messages that you think emerge from Sheehans
presentation
Identify 4 simple actions that could make the most difference to people
Suggest 3 reasons why it is important to focus on feeding the worlds children
Describe 2 projects that WFP have tried which have had an impact on food
security
Identify the 1 thing that you are now going to do in response to the
presentation

Key terms from presentation

Malthusian nightmares
2700 KCalories
the burden of knowledge
Wawa Mum
school feeding
famines happen in the presence of food
economic imperative to reducing malnutrition

 Food security exists when all people, at all

times have access to sufficient, safe and
nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and
food preferences for an active and healthy life..."

How do these statements link to the

concept of 'food security'
1 There will be 219,000 people at the dinner table tonight who
were not there last night.
2 Today, with incomes rising fast in emerging economies, there
are at least 3 billion people moving up the food chain,
consuming more grain-intensive livestock and poultry products.
3 In India some 190 million people are being fed with grain
produced by overpumping groundwater. For China, there are
130 million in the same boat.
4 In Nigeria, 27 percent of families experience foodless days. In
India it is 24 percent, in Peru 14 percent.

 5 Water supply is now the principal constraint on

efforts to expand world food production.
6 Nearly a third of the worlds cropland is losing
topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing
the lands inherent fertility.
7 The generation of farmers now on the land is the
first to face manmade climate change.
8 At no time since agriculture began has the world
faced such a predictably massive threat to food
production as that posed by the melting mountain
glaciers of Asia.

More food?

Changes in agricultural systems

Scientific and technological innovations
Growth of agribusiness
The Green Revolution

The Green Revolution

This was arguably the biggest agricultural
revolution in history
Watch videos and read the information on this
(475-478) and make a table outlining the
advantages and disadvantages of this
Question block 10G page 478.

SPECIFIC EXAMPLE

Taking one of these you are going to draw a flow chart diagram which
aims to show how reasons are inter-related.
Use the diagram below as an example.