Essays Tagged: "Food security"

Food security- the world important issue

According to the World Food Summit, food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access t ... 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. This involves ... nd food preferences for an active and healthy life. This involves four conditions:§Adequacy of food supply or availability;§Stability of supply, without fluctuations or shortages from season ...

(7 pages) 376 7 4.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Social and Economic Effects of Land Redistribution Programme in Zimbabwe Erdem Kilic

("The Politics of Land," 2003). Because the people see land as an alternative source of income and food security, an inequality emerges from the situation. As a consequence of this unequal and race-b ... farms which had provided most of Zimbabwe's maize has decreased since 1985. Mealie-meal is the main food for the Zimbabweans, and it is made from maize which became very hard to find in Zimbabwe. Only ...

(9 pages) 73 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

India's Foreign Policy

on the processes of national consolidation and governance through democratic means. We have ensured food security for our unmanageably vast population, maintained our political cohesion and unity and ...

(7 pages) 72 0 3.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Healthy People 2010: Obesity and Policy.

issues and attributes. A few objectives are reducing overweight adults, healthy weight in children, food intake and nutrition, school nutrition, nutrition counseling and food security. All of these is ...

(4 pages) 257 0 3.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Risk Analysis: Rwanda.

ionship between the U.S. and Rwanda. U.S. AID programs in Rwanda continue to concentrate on health, food security, and democracy/good governance. Rwanda benefits from one regional program, the Educati ... m U.S. companies over the past few years. Smaller import opportunities are available in bulk staple foods such as wheat, sugar, rice and dried milk, 4-wheel drive vehicles, trucks, computer equipment, ...

(11 pages) 150 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Recent famines across Africa have prompted the questions of why Africa, and why again? Focus on these questions by analysing the situation of food insecurity and underlying causes.

n? It is the very focus of this essay to address these questions through analysing the situation of food insecurity in Africa and the underlying 'causes', but also to question, through comparison to o ... on to other 'major world regions' the assumption that Africa is experiencing the worst situation of food insecurity and therefore causing the most 'concern' to the international donor community. Where ...

(24 pages) 83 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Consumer's Suffering in Bangladesh and to Protect their Rights

ERATION AND CONSUMER'S SUFFERINGS:In our society, as we can see now-a-says people engage in selling food grain or food stuff or ready made food have resorted to adulteration or contamination and pollu ... simultaneously and they are putting the whole nation into health hazards.These dishonest traders of foodstuff and the owners of restaurants and post hotels are killing people very technically and indi ...

(32 pages) 70 0 4.5 Jul/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The Arctic Zone

sts by 2099". If thissituation is not remedied the consequences would be devastating.The health and food security of some indigenous people would bethreatened; this would challenge the survival of som ... ty and their very survival.Many seal species depend on the Arctic Ice for habitat, breeding area andfood supply, if the Arctic ice melts they would likely become extinct. Since sealsare a food supply ...

(8 pages) 25 0 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Famine

tems and a large military budget. The key to national security and survival, however, is a reliable food supply. A food supply must be maintained despite such factors as land conversion, population gr ... ined despite such factors as land conversion, population growth and economic inequalities. Reliable food supplies in developing countries are in jeopardy due to deliberate crop destruction and ineffic ...

(2 pages) 14 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Waste to Energy in Bangladesh

eans that, with an ever growing population with unmet needs of sanitation, proper hygiene, housing, food security, in short the daily basic needs, the city itself has turned into an urban slum. The wa ...

(7 pages) 23 2 5.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Effect of Agriculture on International Trade Negotiations

s paper.Again, the global impacts of each of the above scenarios have been evaluated. The impact on food prices and food security has been weighed against the current ongoing downturn and the possibil ... talks. Whether the failure would deeply impact the ongoing trade and they would hamper the trade of food grains across the world or would it be neutral to these events.Different solutions have been ev ...

(14 pages) 42 0 0.0 May/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Final Project: Mitigation Strategies and Solutions

wing, and more recurrently people are moving to the coasts. Along with migration to the coast, more food is required to sustain the population growth. Due to this, we as a population need to become aw ... lex and productive ecosystems are in coastal areas. `Coastal resources are of utmost importance for food security" (Sankey, 1998). With these sensitive coastal ecosystems being threatened, many more i ...

(8 pages) 26 0 0.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Against Regional Integration

h and public safety is an increasing exploitation of the environment and natural resources, loss of food security, loss of wages, reduced employment unionized labor flexibility and a growing poverty a ...

(2 pages) 5 0 0.0 Jun/2011

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Organic Farming

nd more so, it supports and provides better health for the citizens of the country, especially with food security. As well as it helps sustain the livelihood of humanity.��What Are Benef ... this type of farming but are amazed to find that it is still stands the best ever. It helped on the food security and economy in a numerous immeasurable ways that are not imaginable. And that is the t ...

(6 pages) 4 0 0.0 Oct/2012

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

solar energy

that was brought by this revolution is that during the agricultural the potato became a successful food crop that it helped increase the food supply. Also with this increase in the food supply came a ...

(1 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jun/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

rice crisis

RICE SHORTAGES CAUSING FOOD CRISIS IN ASIAIf this dilemma on our food crisis keeps up then there is little hope for us to s ... the problem to keep on arising. The most relent years; I did observe that prices especially in the food department are increasing sharply. In an article stated the food crisis has hit Asia early on 2 ... nto a tight situation. It is stated that the analysts in the issue suffered in 2008 that caused the food emergency is that the demand of the people cannot be meet because there isn't enough food for e ...

(2 pages) 2 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture