How does recognizing the role that food plays in your life affect how you approach global hunger and food security? Slide 31 (What is Food Security?) Food security is often defined in terms of three main component areas: food availability, access, and utilization (USAID 1995). Food availability is achieved when sufficient quantities of food are consistently available to all individuals within a country. This is accomplished through various domestic outputs, commercial imports, and food assistance. (Think production!) Food access is ensured when households and all individuals within them have adequate resources to obtain appropriate food for a nutritional diet. This includes a sufficient household income and the price of food. (Think affordable food!) Food utilization is the proper biological use of food. This requires an energy-giving, sufficient diet and access to potable water, but also knowledge of storage and processing techniques. (Think nutrition!) Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN [Transition] Now we are moving on to an example of how Food Security is implemented using a case study and Joseph’s story in Tanzania. Slide 32 (Tanzania and Soya ni Pesa) CRS is partnering with organizations in Tanzania to implement Soya ni Pesa, a $20 million dollar project sponsored by the USDA that seeks to provide up to 11,000 smallholder farmers with production and marketing of soybeans between 2013 and 2017. The project has had a successful start by generating 850 megatons of soybeans for participating farmers at two to three times the conventional market price.
How does recognizing the role that food plays in your life affect how you approach global hunger and food security? Slide 31 (What is Food Security?) Food security is often defined in terms of three main component areas: food availability, access, and utilization (USAID 1995). Food availability is achieved when sufficient quantities of food are consistently available to all individuals within a country. This is accomplished through various domestic outputs, commercial imports, and food assistance. (Think production!) Food access is ensured when households and all individuals within them have adequate resources to obtain appropriate food for a nutritional diet. This includes a sufficient household income and the price of food. (Think affordable food!) Food utilization is the proper biological use of food. This requires an energy-giving, sufficient diet and access to potable water, but also knowledge of storage and processing techniques. (Think nutrition!) Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN [Transition] Now we are moving on to an example of how Food Security is implemented using a case study and Joseph’s story in Tanzania. Slide 32 (Tanzania and Soya ni Pesa) CRS is partnering with organizations in Tanzania to implement Soya ni Pesa, a $20 million dollar project sponsored by the USDA that seeks to provide up to 11,000 smallholder farmers with production and marketing of soybeans between 2013 and 2017. The project has had a successful start by generating 850 megatons of soybeans for participating farmers at two to three times the conventional market price.
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