HLTB22H3 Lecture Notes - Sustainable Development Goals, Food Security, Millennium Development Goals
Document Summary
Food security: when all members at all times have physical and economic access to buy, produce, obtain or consume sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and active life. Shorter definition: access to food at all times. Sustainable development goals outlines food security as goal #2. What is the difference between food insecurity & hunger: hunger: the temporary experience of not having food, being unfull. The 3 pillars of food security according to who: food availability (the supply of food, food access (physical and economic access, food utilization (nutritious food access) (fao"s 4th pillar is stability) Access: high medical fees can reduce household budgets for food. Access: some strong cultural beliefs prevent people from eating certain healthy food products food utilization. Highest undernourishment is highest in eastern asia, southern asia. Main point: the millennium development goals were created in 2000. In 2015, this was replaced by the sustainable development goals.
