CONWORLD - LESSON 7 Flashcards
It is defined as the availability of food and one’s access to it.
Food Security
True or False: A household is considered food secure when its occupants live in hunger or fear of starvation.
False
What are the four (4) Pillars of Food Security?
Food Availability
Food Accessibility
Food Utilization
Food Stability
Individuals have adequate income to purchase appropriate food needed to maintain consumption of adequate diet and nutritional level.
Food Accessibility
It describes the temporal dimensions and nutrition security, respective of the time-frame over which food and nutrition security is being considered.
Food Stability
It is the ability of human body to ingest and metabolize food through adequate diet, clean water, good sanitation and health care to reach a state of nutritional well-being.
Food Utilization
Sufficient quantities of appropriate necessary types of food.
Food Availability
Enumerate the four (4) things affecting food security today.
Global Water Crisis
Climate Change
Land Degradation
Greedy Land Deals
Rising global temperatures are beginning to have a ripple effect on crop yields, forest resources, water supplies and altering the balance of nature.
Climate change
Water table reserves are falling in many countries including Northern China, the United States, and India due to widespread over pumping and irrigation.
Global water crisis
Intensive farming to a vicious cycle of exhaustion of soil fertility and decline of agricultural yields.
Land Degradation
Corporations and governments buying rights to millions of acres of agricultural land in developing countries to secure their own long-term food supplies.
Greedy land deals
It is an Act liberalizing the importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice and for other purposes.
Republic Act No. 11203 or the the Rice Tariffication Law
Republic Act No. 11203 or the the Rice Tariffication Law was signed into law by?
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
When was the Republic Act No. 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law signed into law?
February 14, 2019
It is allocated for the procurement of farm machinery and equipment, rice development, propagation and promotion, as well as expanded rice credit and extension services
Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)
True or False: According to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) rice tariffication will directly benefit farmers and the poor through lower rice prices and increased government assistance to the agricultural sector.
True
It the state of being reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
Food Insecurity
What are the five (5) impacts of food insecurity?
Undernourishment
Malnutrition
Wasting
Social Unrest
Rising Prices
People can’t consume enough calories, and other nutrients for them to do every day work and task.
Undernourishment
People can’t eat enough amount of right and nutritious food to keep them healthy.
Malnutrition
It is the serious type of hunger. A severe malnutrition that leads to too much weight loss and at risk of diseases.
Wasting
Everyone needs to eat so when food supplies are low, people have to fight for their survival.
Social Unrest
When there’s less food available, the price of that certain food increases.
Rising Prices
What are the strategies to increase food security?
Irrigation
Use of New Technology
Support from the Government
Promote Farming to Everyone
It can double the amount of food produced. Some parts of the world still do not have irrigation systems.
Irrigation
True or False: Using machines can really help in producing and harvesting crops fast and easy.
True
True or False: Government must support farmers financially, and provide tools and machines for farming.
True
True or False: Everyone must know the proper way of farming and the beauty of doing it.
True
