1. What is 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 lifestyle.
- United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)

2. The 4 As of Food Security Healthy food should be:
Accessible to all (sufficient supply)
Available to all (food access)
Adequate to all (nutritious and from a sustainable food system)
Acceptable to all (culturally appropriate)

3. Farmers produce more than enough food to feed the world, yet 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. Recovering just ½ could eradicated hunger.
98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries.
$3.2B is needed per year to feed the 66 million children who go to school hungry.
If female farmers had the same resources as male farmers, up to 150 million more people would be fed.

4. All this in spite of a world food surplus
Population will be checked in more and more countries by famine and disease
Uncontrolled increases in urbanization in developing countries leads to:
Large scale slums
Problems with clean water
Pollution and sanitation problems
Epidemics such as malaria and cholera
All this in spite of a world food surplus

9. The earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
-Mahatma Gandhi

10. Stockpile Trade Give as Aid Destroy
Developed nations can do one of the following with their surplus:
Stockpile
Trade
Give as Aid
Destroy

11. Nations will destroy food to prevent it from reaching markets where the increased supply will lower prices
If farmers receive unprofitably low prices for their crops they may choose not to grow those crops in the future

12. Something to Think About:
If farmers are producing enough food to feed the world, why do you think there are still 795 million hungry people?
What can we do to reduce food waste?
How are poverty, hunger and health related?

13. Examples of Waste Canadian milk poured down old mine shafts
English tomatoes bulldozed into the sea
American cows killed and buried
French fruit allowed to rot

14. Of the World’s total food aid:
Many developed nations feel that distributing food surpluses through trade or aid is counter-productive to any long-term solutions – countries being able to feed themselves
Of the World’s total food aid:
USA 75%; Canada 15% (both Gov’t and non-Gov’t sources)
Australia, Germany and Japan make up most of the remaining aid

15. Problem:
Food is more than nourishment, it is also a part of culture and tradition which leads to constraints in availability of food surpluses:

17. Southern India will not eat wild greens
Hindus eat no beef
Jews and Muslims will not eat pork

18. Bacteria is rich in protein and multiplies at a fantastic rate – but it is not socially acceptable to eat
1000kg of bacteria produces 100 trillion kg of protein

19. Consumption of Grain Developing World 250 kg/capita/yr
European Community
450 kg/capita/yr
United States
840 kg/capita/yr

20. Today the problem is not the earth’s capacity to feed the world’s population but of incomes, prices, subsidies and other mechanisms to control trade.

24. World Food Program (UN)
Provides food aid to almost 90 million people a year – 58 million of which are children

27. Is Food Security Just a Developing World Issue?

28. Something to Think About:
Food security is the state of having access to enough food that is both affordable and nutritious. What are examples of situations where food might not be affordable or nutritious?
How would your life be different if you were experiencing hunger on a daily basis? What challenges would you face? What are the long- term risks?
What are some issues you see as being related to hunger? How do these issues make it harder for people to find affordable nutritious food? How does hunger amplify these issues?

32. New Campaign aims to shed light on the high price of food in Canada’s North
Food Prices are Out of Control in Northern Canada
When $500 isn’t enough to buy groceries for a week
Speaking out against $600-a-week grocery bills
Documentary: A Right to Eat