Food Security And Insecurity Flashcards
What is a reason why countries are suffering from food insecurity?
One of the reasons is that all of the countries that provide food, like Cambodia, has shipped the food to other places around the world, and are not keeping much for themselves
How many people in the world are undernourished
795 million people
What are 5 factors affecting the supply of food
Climate, wars and violence, hygiene, wealth, natural disasters
What are some physical factors affecting food supply
Too mountainous, tropical, drought, floods, disease, pests
What are some human factors affecting food supply
War and civil conflict, transportation difficulties, poor infrastructures, poverty, commercial farming, soil exhaustion
What is food security
The state of having a reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritional food
What is food insecurity
The condition of not having enough sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet one’s basic needs
What is food security index
Food security is measured using this. It is calculated by looking at the level of food stocks in a country, the level of nutrition and political stability
What is calorific value
The energy contained in food
What is malnutrition
A serious condition that happens when your diet does not contain enough energy
What is under nutrition
This is caused by having a poorly balanced diet which lacks essential vitamins and minerals
