Food Security and Its Impact on Society: Cases of Developing World

Title

Food Security and Its Impact on Society: Cases of Developing World

Creator

Marshal R.; Datta R.; Latha K.

Description

Food security is a matter of concern in the twenty-first century as is evident from the importance given to it in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Despite attempts to address food scarcity concerns at global conventions such as the World Food Summit of 1996, food remains scarce. Scholars further suggest that though food scarcity is a global issue, its roots and impact is local. Consequently, a study of food must study the major challenges that converge to undermine food security worldwide including conflicts, climate change, global policies and in recent times even the Covid 19 pandemic. However, at a fundamental level food scarcity is the by-product of not just a legacy of past failures to build more just, sustainable, and resilient food systems, but rather a by-product of our inability to be responsible and sustainable consumers. This chapter highlights that despite surplus food production, developing nations often face food insecurity owing to the diversion of food towards developed nations. These nations, instead of sharing global resources (including food and agricultural labour), often contribute towards the global food crisis. Moreover, some of these developed nations engage in an industrialised system of food produc-tion which might meet the nations food requirements but are not sustainable modes of production and pose a serious threat to the environment. Nevertheless, the indis-cretions of the developed nations affect the developing nations economically as well as socially. As social outcasts, marginalised communities and individuals within the developing world are worst affected. As a result, this chapter offers insight into the social struggle brought on by inaccessibility to food. The chapter further suggests that addressing concerns of food security is not only a matter of addressing the inequalities manifest in the production, distribution and consumption of food but also learning to be responsible and sustainable consumers. Simply stated, the chapter recommends connecting SDG 2 with SDG 12. This chapter would also include the position of India in GHI, the Ukraine crisis and its aftermath in various developing countries, the earthquake in Turkey and how it affects the food security, and a few instances from Africa to highlight the concepts of food security and its correlation with sustainability of any society. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

Source

Food Security in a Developing World: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities, pp. 101-115.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Springer Nature

Subject

Food crisis; Global resources; Sustainable consumers

Coverage

Marshal R., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus, Bangalore, India; Datta R., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus, Bangalore, India; Latha K., Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303157283-8; 978-303157282-1

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57283-8_7

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