CHED FACULTY TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION(GE)

CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING

I. Title: Food Security

II. Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
define Global Food Security; and
critique existing Models of Global Food Security.

III. Introduction:
This chapter discusses the overview of Food Security as a concept, its
linkages with human security and its main critiques. It also deals with a brief
evaluation of some of the different approaches that have emerged to deal with
the various challenges associated with global food security.

IV. Content:
Food Security is used widely across disciplines and issues areas. The first
official definition of food security emerged at the 1974 UN World Food Conference
and stated that food security meant the availability at all times of adequate world food
supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to
offset fluctuations in production and prices (FAO, 2003:27)

Global Food Security

The future of Global Food Security relies on how states and other actors
respond to a range of complex interconnected and multifaceted forces affecting
food systems around the world. These systems encompass interactions between
and within bio geophysical and human environments, which determine a set of
activity.

Emerging Responses to Calls for Global Food Security

The surge in Global Food Prices in 2007-8 was critical in putting Global Food
Security high on the agenda of governments, International Institutions, Regional
Organizations, NGOs and a host of other actors around the world. The prevailing
discourse on Food Security is driven by the official understanding of the concept,
as delineated by the FAO.

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CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING

V. Activity/ Assessment:
Directions: Answer the following questions and cite examples.

1. Write an essay about the importance of Food Security to globalism.

2. Have an online research on the different Models of Food Security and
make a reflection paper of at least 300 words.

VI. References :
Ericson PJ (2008) Conceptualizing Food Systems for Global Environment
Change Research. Global Environment Change 18(1):234-45

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization (2012)

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 Rome: Food and
Agriculture Organization

Maxwell S (1996) Food Security: A Post-modern Perspective, Food Policy 21

(2): 155-70

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