Achieving Food Security Through a Food Systems Lens

Challenges in Achieving Food Security in India

First Millennium Development Goal states the target of "Halving hunger by 2015". Sadly, the recent statistics for India present a very gloomy picture. India currently has the largest number of undernourished people in the world and this is in spite of the fact that it has made substantial progress in health determinants over the past decades and ranks second worldwide in farm output. The causes...

Achieving food security in times of crisis.

In spite of several World Food Summits during the past decade, the number of people going to bed hungry is increasing and now exceeds one billion. Food security strategies should therefore be revisited. Food security systems should begin with local communities who can develop and manage community gene, seed, grain and water banks. At the national level, access to balanced diet and clean drinkin...

Food Security and Economic Growth

T  his study aimed to examine the relationship between food security, health and economic growth. These three components together form the vertices of a triangle. How much does food security strategies in a country bring more health to its people? Is the  healthy population richer? What is the impact of health on income, and to what extent are income variation am...

A View of Food Security and Nutrition through A Policy Coherent Lens

Enhancing African Food Security through Improved Regional Marketing Systems for Food Staples

Africa’s hunger hot spots are well known. Drought-prone areas, such as the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, confront frequent crop failure and reliance on pastoral and migratory coping systems. Conflict and civil strife compound these problems in the Horn, the Congo Basin and in pockets across West Africa. The resulting hunger hot spots have earned Africa an unenviable world-wide reputation as a c...