Mike Nsuka
- What is Food Security?
Food security in the world poorest regions is as closely linked to water and infectious disease as it is to agriculture. Without for irrigation, crop production is confined mainly to rainy season, which lasts only a few months many tropical and sub-tropical countries, with timing and duration that vary from year to year. As described by burney in chapter 6, farmers without irrigation are less likely to cultivate fruits and vegetables that improve household nutrition and generate income for the family My households in low-income countries also have limited access to domestic water supplies, often spending dozens of hours per week hauling small volumes of water from distant sources for their cooking, drinking and washing needs. Inadequate water supply sanitation services are key contributions to the spread of diarrheal disease which in turn limits people’s ability to absorb calories, protein, and essential micronutrients. The malnutrition resulting from repeated or prolonged diarrheal illness profoundly compromises the human immune system and accelerate the progression of other diseases such as HIV/AIDS. A pernicious cycle arises, in which the physical impacts and medical costs of malnutrition frequent illness reduce labor productivity and farm output, limit household income, and prevent individuals for working biological use of food they are able to obtain. Effective interventions to reduce food insecurity thus need to address the intersection of these water, food, and health constraints as well as the fundamental economic conditions that cause families to live in persistent poverty.
- How does climate change affect food security?
Climate variability and extremes are a key driver behind the recent rises in global hunger and one of the leading causes severe food crises. The changing nature of climate variability and extremes in negatively affecting all dimensions of food security (Food availability, access, utilization and stability), as well as reinforcing other underlying causes of malnutrition relating to child care and feeding, health services and environmental health. The risk of food insecurity and malnutrition is greater nowadays because livelihoods and livelihood assets especially of the poor are more exposed and vulnerable to changing climate variability and extremes.
- How can systems of international trade solve food security?
By ending hunger and ensuring access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
- How can agricultural practices improve the efficiency of food production?
Without a sufficiently nutritious diet, learning ability and focus are greatly impaired. Improving the nutrition girls, women and children improves schooling, reducing gender inequalities. Ensuring good nutrition requires access to safe water and sanitation. Good nutrition for all increasing diseases demand for healthy food, requiring clean, renewable energy sources.
- How is science used to increase food security?
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
- What cultural changes will help to solve food security concerns, for example eating meat? Will eating habits change in the future? How?
We have to be careful of what we eat; we had better eat “Bio” that is to say we must be accustomed to eating a little meat, more vegetables and fruits, also we must be used to eating bitter things even once a day that will help us keeping safe our body.
- Should the world try to control its population?
Yes, of course if the population is not controlled, nobody will abide by the law everybody will act as he needs that will be a great disorder.
- What is the best policy, in your opinion, to make sure people are fed in the future?
Ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient for all and eliminating all forms of malnutrition also contribute to achievement of other goals of the 2030 Agenda: ending poverty; improving health, education, gender equality and access to clean water and sanitation, decent work, reduce inequality, peace and justice.