'With Reference to Examples, Explain How and Why Food Security and Other Basic Entitlements Are Essential For Development'
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- 'With Reference to Examples, Explain How and Why Food Security and Other Basic Entitlements Are Essential For Development'
- Utilisation
- Household level
- sufficient, varied food prepared safely
- allows for normal development, reduced disease and meet energy needs
- increases productivity, decreases dependency ratio and doesn't put stress on relatives
- wood fires cause respiratiory illesses in homes
- PRACTICAL ACTION provides smoke hoods
- increases effiency (40% less fuel needed)
- reduces smoke in the home = decreased illness
- PRACTICAL ACTION provides smoke hoods
- MEDCs -issues with obesity bc bad food is cheap & lack of education
- allows for normal development, reduced disease and meet energy needs
- sufficient, varied food prepared safely
- Globally
- MEDCs have technology to utilise food and produce it in greater capacity
- can use food on global markets for trading
- Globally: overproduce food (enough to feed 2,700 per person per day)
- issue is in distribution - in the UK, 1/3 food is thrown away
- LEDCs do not have access to or cannot afford technology
- cannot produce food in great capacity = food insecurity
- MEDCs have Trade Blocs s can specialise
- make cheaper, good quality food
- efficient production (bc technology)
- make cheaper, good quality food
- LEDCs do not have Blocs and have to produce everything
- creates food insecurity bc local people cannot do that for significant nutrition
- main diet is maize and plantain
- creates food insecurity bc local people cannot do that for significant nutrition
- MEDCs have technology to utilise food and produce it in greater capacity
- NGOs (eg. practical action) provide sustainable technology to utiilise resources
- increases capacity
- Household level
- Availability
- food can become unavailable due to: climate, disasters, war, civil unrest, population size and growth, agricultural practices, economic conditions and trade.
- UK has food security bc there is always food in shops
- however, rural people may not be able to get to shops easily = inequality even in the UK
- UGANDA: 85% people are rural = lack of access to food
- however, rural people may not be able to get to shops easily = inequality even in the UK
- access to food = increased productivity
- if people have access to food they spend less time finding it
- capacity building
- people can use to break the poverty cycle
- if people have access to food they spend less time finding it
- Amartya Sen: entitlements philosophy
- food is the most basic of entitlements
- 80% Ugandans are farmers = vulnerable to drought & climate change
- pregnant women and children more vulnerable bc need more nutrition
- malnutrition increases maternal mortality and increases orphans
- different social groups may lack access to food
- eg. study in Pakistan = women said if they were pregnant with a girl they were denied food until they had a miscarriage
- oppression of women at a household level
- eg. study in Pakistan = women said if they were pregnant with a girl they were denied food until they had a miscarriage
- Affordability
- there may be food available but people can't afford
- Eg Ethiopian famine
- food available but 40% inflation = £1 sack of grain now £20 = people starve
- Eg Ethiopian famine
- 80% income in Uganda spent on food
- can't spend money on things to reduce poverty (education, healthcare, water)
- increases rate of disease and keeps people in poverty cycle
- Stops Rostow's model as food needed for greater production
- can't spend money on things to reduce poverty (education, healthcare, water)
- mal-distribution of aid (either through corruption or if in war-zone)
- UGANDA: dependent on food aid since 1963
- taken by leaders mis-using public funds, puts up prices
- UGANDA: dependent on food aid since 1963
- politically can cause shift to extremist parties if people can't access food
- Amartya Sen: famine is not the lack of food but the inability of people to afford it
- development as freedom: financial freedom so that people can buy things for development
- if prices rise, the rich are more likely to be able to feed themselves
- food becomes too expensive to feed the whole family
- women and girls less likely to be fed bc less important
- women and girls are vulnerable
- women and girls less likely to be fed bc less important
- there may be food available but people can't afford
- Food Security
- When people live without hunger or starvation
- Physical, economic and social access to food
- development requires to be healthy, educated and have access to food
- no food = illness
- hunger is eating less than 2100 calories per day
- creates malnutrition and food insecurity
- food must be available, affordable and utilised correctly for people to be food secure
- Utilisation
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