Week 7 - Food Security & Global Issues in Health & Nutrition

Question 1

Factors Driving the Increase In Global Food Insecurity

- 8 things

Answer 1

Increase in demand from population growth
Free trade agreements
Food competition
Increasing oil prices (Peak Oil)
Environmental degradation
Nutrition transition to highly refined foods
Climatic events (eg drought)
Bio-technology (Genetically Modified Food)

Question 2

population prediction by end of 21st century

Answer 2

10bil

Question 3

Explain the Free Trade Agreements and Trade Imbalances

Answer 3

An agreement made with a group of countries to
eliminate tariffs, quotas and preferences on most (if not
all) goods and services traded between them

Question 4

What are tariffs

Answer 4

(a fee) are usually imposed on imported goods

to provide domestic produce with a competitive edge

Question 5

what is a quota

Answer 5

A quota is a physical limit on the quantity of a good that

can be imported into a country in a given period of time.

Question 6

Food aid is driven by what

Answer 6

surplus production of grain from developed countries

Question 7

explain the Increasing oil prices epidemic/what occurs

Answer 7

Higher energy prices pushing up the cost of processing, fuel, fertilizers and pesticides

Question 8

consequence of environmental degradation

Answer 8

Environmental degradation, as a result of agriculture and animal husbandry, may slow down growth in food production

Question 9

explain the nutrition transition

Answer 9

The result of a series of changes in diet, physical activity, health and nutrition, collectively known as the ‘nutrition transition.’

Question 10

What is a communicable disease?

Answer 10

a disease that can be communicated from one person to another – HIV/AIDS

Question 11

What is a non-communicable disease

Answer 11

chronic conditions or illness that does not result from an acute infection
May develop over long periods without causing symptoms
eg diabetes, cancer

Question 12

what is the leading cause of death in developing countries?

Answer 12

Communicable diseases

Question 13

what is the leading cause of death in adults globally?

Answer 13

non-communicable diseases

Question 14

The Major Nutrition Problems contributing To

Disease Worldwide

Answer 14

obesity, nutrition related chronic diseases

Question 15

What is the double burden of disease

Answer 15

Refers to the dual burden of under and over nutrition

occurring simultaneously within a population

Question 16

What are the possible solutions for these global issues

Answer 16

improve food production, decrease poverty , reduce food waste, develop technology to preserve resources

Question 17

Who are the Key International Stakeholders and their

Policy Interests

Answer 17

Food and Agricultural Organisation
(FAO)

World Trade Organisation

Codex Alimentarius Commission

World Health Organisation (WHO)

World Food Programme

Question 18

Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

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Answer 18

Create sustainable improvements in nutrition, especially among nutritionally vulnerable households and population groups

Raise awareness of the benefits of combating
hunger and reducing malnutrition

Question 19

What is the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health (DPAS)

Answer 19

Prevention-based strategy aimed to guide countries to reduce the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases across populations

Question 20

Purpose of Codex Alimentarius Commission

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Answer 20

Purpose is to:
– Protect health of the consumers (public health)
– Ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade
– Promote coordination of all food standards work
undertaken by international govern

Question 21

United Nations World Food Programme

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Answer 21

Food aid arm of the UN

Provides the logistics support necessary to get food
aid to the right people at the right time and in the
right place.

Question 22

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Answer 22

Oversees and administers the trade pact
between more than 100 nations who promise
to observe tariff levels