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FOOD SECURITY  A GLOBAL PROBLEM Food security is a potential predicament to the world at this time. Today we are facing a challenge to provide the inexpensive, sustainable, and nutritious food to the fast-growing world’s population. Food security is a contrary term to food insecurity. It includes a wide range of fundamental food issues. It is quite difficult to state precise definition of food security.Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The food security and nutrition security are undoubtedly closely linked to each other, but yet they have differences. The world has agreed that food security is basic but it doesn’t necessarily provide you nutritional security. But these two terms cannot be separated from each other because both of them are part of each other. All proposed definitions of food security are appli

Aspirin importance: Have you ever had a headache?  Chances are you have; almost all of us do once in a while.  And chances are you took some kind of medicine to ease your headache. That medicine was most likely a relative of   aspirin .You may also have taken aspirin or its relatives for other problems, like inflammation (swelling of joints or other parts of the body) or fever. But did you know that about   80 billion   aspirin tablets are taken per year for these problems, as well as many others? For example, millions of people take aspirin to help prevent   heart attacks !  There are good reasons a doctor might say, "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"! Now, Dr. Luke Hoffman leads an exploration of aspirin. You will learn about the many benefits of aspirin, as well as some good reasons NOT to take this medication! You will also come to understand why Bayer has called aspirin "the wonder drug that works wonders!" Aspirin: The Bayer Facts Aspir

Fourteen Reasons: Why Food Security is Important Food security is important because: 1. Everybody has to eat. The obvious should not go without saying. Our dependency on food is so central that we often do not consider it or who is benefitting and who is paying. 2. Food is a basic human right. Canada is a signatory to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human  Rights. Article 25 includes the “right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care … “ Human rights leaders around the world are concerned about actions of global institutions like the World Trade Organization that violate these and other human rights. 3. Food is the basis of a community’s economy. Food is the basic element of community self-reliance. It provides jobs, enhances culture, enables community and supports public health. Because of its essential nature, agriculture and food keeps going when other industries f

Food security : 2.1 Introduction This chapter looks at the origins of the concept of chronic food insecurity, the implications for measurement, and suggests the need for a complementary investigation into the implications for transitory food insecurity of trade liberalization. The 2002 food crisis in Southern Africa is used to highlight issues for further discussion. 2.2 Defining food security Food security is a flexible concept as reflected in the many attempts at definition in research and policy usage. Even a decade ago, there were about 200 definitions in published writings whenever the concept is introduced in the title of a study or its objectives, it is necessary to look closely to establish the explicit or implied definition. The continuing evolution of food security as an operational concept in public policy has reflected the wider recognition of the complexities of the technical and policy issues involved. The most recent careful redefinition of food security