PPT-Global Food Security: How to Feed the Hungry

Clyde Martin Former Jefferson Science Fellow United States Department of State Who am I anyway Trained as a mathematician Kansas State Teachers College and the University of Wyoming Worked at NASA as an aeronautical engineer . A worldwide survey of people’s experience with food insecurity. Background & Motivation. FAO has the mandate to monitor progress towards the achievement of the hunger target of MDG 1 and the WFS target . Children Seniors Suburbanites. Food insecurity touches 1 in 5 . REALITY OF THE NEED IN OUR CITY . . Who are these hungry people?. WHY DOES IT MATTER? . . Moral Economic Health Social . #hungryforchange. Photo credit: Annie Bungeroth. What’s. Hungry for change?. Our . campaign that looks at the global food system. . Photo credit: Simon Rawles. Food Fact. 870 million people . worldwide do not have enough to eat. That’s equivalent to all the people in the USA, Canada, Australia and the European Union combined. . Large greenhouses in Spain that grow food for export. The area around America has become known as the . Costa del . Polythene. : a sea of . plastic. . . Is there enough food to feed everyone on planet earth. #hungryforchange. Photo credit: Annie Bungeroth. What’s. Hungry for change?. Our . campaign that looks at the global food system. . Photo credit: Simon Rawles. Food Fact. 870 million people . worldwide do not have enough to eat. That’s equivalent to all the people in the USA, Canada, Australia and the European Union combined. . What is it?. Food Security:. “When all people, at all times, have . physical and economic access . to . sufficient, safe and nutritious food. to meet their . dietary needs and food preferences . for an active and healthy life” . The emerging architecture of global food security governance. Political . Economy of . Food. Centre for Food Policy. . City . University. , London. March. 12, 2012. Jessica Duncan. What. . this. . Food security exists if and only if
“all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” 28:2. . “Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.”. --Jacques . Diouf. “Hear the voice of my pleas for . mercy.” 28:2. “Being . hungry is not a sin. Neglecting the hungry . | Page 1 G7 Statement on Global Food Security Elmau , 2 8 Ju ne 202 2 We, the Leaders of the G7, will spare no effort to increase global food and nutrition security and to protect the most vulnera Background & Motivation. FAO has the mandate to monitor progress towards the achievement of the hunger target of MDG 1 and the WFS target . Prevalence of Undernourishment (. PoU. ) as a measure of the extent of chronic food deprivation (Official MDG Ind. 1.9). the . Zambezi river basin: A model . analysis of Zambia . . Amanda Palazzo*. 1. , Petr Havlík. 1. , Michiel van Dijk. 1,2. 1 Ecosystem . Services and . Management program (IIASA, Austria). 2 . Wageningen. countries. Juan E. Andrade, Ph.D.. Assistant Professor. Food Science and Human Nutrition. Division of Nutritional Sciences. Center for Latino American and Caribbean Studies. Acknowledgements. My family. Connecting information systems and strengthening capacities in food security and nutrition analysis and decision making . 15 November 2012. Washington, DC. Setting the stage – why FSIN?. Increased demand for timely, high quality information; vs. often still weak info systems at country and .