Global Food Crisis

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1.0-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1-BACKGROUND OF THE ISSUE The global food crisis is affecting millions of children and families around the world, threatening to push further 100 million people into deeper poverty. The crisis has been caused by a combination of factors, including an increasing in oil and other commodity prices. Many of those already struggling to survive now face malnutrition and starvation as skyrocketing prices makes staples like rice increasingly unaffordable. Global food crisis also where the price of food has been rising for a while. In some countries this has resulted in food riots and in the case of Haiti where food prices increased by 50-100%, the Prime Minister was forced out of office. Elsewhere people have been killed, and many more injured. While Media reports have been concentrating on the immediate causes, the deeper issues and causes have not been discussed as much. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy and active life. Unlike nutrition, where treatment is guided by standard protocols based on human nutritional requirements, food security must take into account a wide range of factors such as climate, geography, socio-economic systems, and political structures. The challenges in achieving food security are to reduce poverty, increase food security without further degrading natural resources, and to cope with population growth, rising incomes and inflation, changing food habits, conversion of food crops into bio fuels, increasing speculation in the commodity market and urbanization. To solve the problem of global food crisis, a coordinated multi-stranded approach is needed. Improving food security will help governments to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs). Food security

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