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Current State of Global Food Security

Issues of Inclusion

Focus areas include the following with the goal of scaling up implementation:

Private Sector Engagement

Climate-Smart Development

  • Globally 795 million people are undernourished
  • There is a growing triple burden in developing countries of under-nutrition, micro-nutrient deficiency, and obesity.
  • Currently a third of food is lost or wasted.
  • Smallholders supply 70 percent of overall food production, through 470 million farmers, artisan fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless and indigenous peoples.

Gender Integration

Inclusive Agriculture Sector Growth

Improved Nutrition

Research and Capacity Building

Standard for inclusion:

  • Target investments to those in need
  • Enable wider participation
  • Women’s participation

What is Food Security?

Impacts on Food Security

U.S. Feed the Future Initiative

  • During the 2009 G-8 Summit in Italy, President Obama called on global leaders to reverse the decades-long decline in investment in agriculture and strengthen global efforts to reduce poverty, hunger and undernutrition.
  • The United States pledged $3.5 billion to this effort over three years, which helped leverage an additional $18.5 billion in support from G-8 members and other donors. The U.S. contribution to this global commitment came to be called “Feed the Future.

The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing when "all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life."

  • Green Revolution
  • International Trade
  • Natural Resource Constraints
  • Population growth
  • Urbanization and changes in dietary preferences

3 Pillars of Food Security

  • Availability
  • Access
  • Use

New Alliance

The New Alliance (NA) is a set of agreements announced by the G8 in 2012 and 2013 that give large corporations a key role in agricultural development in Africa and require participating governments to provide incentives to agribusiness and expand corporate access to land, water, labor, and markets.

  • Represents reduction of aid and public investment in agriculture
  • Threatens rural community land and creates social inequality
  • Undermines biodiversity and sustainable agriculture techniques

Linking U.S. food aid to long-term food security

  • Chronically food insecure communities often receive multi-year assistance through Title II non-emergency food aid.
  • Currently 9 countries overlap, receiving both FtF and Title II food aid assistance
  • Targeting metrics for FtF do not match those of food aid assistance in all cases except Guatemala

Creating Food Security Going Forward

US Strategy to address long-term food security should prioritize interventions inclusive to smallholder farmers including women and other disenfranchised populations. These interventions include:

  • Agroecology
  • Local market development over global
  • Recognition that policies benefiting the private sector are often exclusive of smallholders
  • Further linkages between food aid and long-term food security

Food Insecurity

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