642 million in Asia and the Pacific suffer from hunger and nearly 20% of the Philippines' 92.2 million people (United States Department of State) are still undernourished.;This researcher focuses on both food security and development issues in Philippines and how globalization can influence its prog...
Seasonality is an important aspect of food security for subsistence households in developing countries. Among the multidimensional aspects of food security, this paper focuses on how unexpected negative harvest shocks would affect the seasonal food consu
Chapter 4 State of Food and Nutrition Security in the Pacific Federico Davila, Sarah Burkhart, and Tarli O'Connell Pacific food systems are influenced by multiple governance and socio-ecological systems, and opportunities for transformations exist from expanding traditional understandings of food and ...
Food Insecurity and the Threat to Global Stability and Security in the 21st CenturyBy Michael DeFeo 2017, Vol. 9 No. 12 | pg. 1/1 Cite References Print IN THIS ARTICLE Causes of Food Insecurity Poor Institutional Capacity State Failure and the Threat to Regional Stability ...
'A country and people are food secure when their food system operates efficiently in such a way as to remove the fear that there will not be enough to eat' (Maxwell, 1988). 'Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and ...
Under the emblem of the green revolution, the transformation in the conventional agri-food system improved farm productivity, income, and food security. However, the agri-food systems failed to meet the food needs of all socio-economic classes equally or to protect farmers’ livelihoods (Spear, ...
1. Concepcion-Carrier Air Conditioning Company Formed in January 1998‚ Concepcion-Carrier Air Conditioning Company (CCAC) brings together two leaders in the air conditioning industry: Carrier Corporation of the United States and Concepcion Industries‚ Inc. of the Philippines. In just a few years...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Roy Ellen Background The 1990s witnessed a growing acknowledgement world wide of the importance of local ecological knowledge in the context of food security and sustainable development (Warren, Slikkerveer and Brokensha 1995; Sillitoe, Bicker and Pottier 2002; Pottier, Bicker...
Mindanao, the second largest island, is in the south. The Philippines are 1,152 miles (1,854 kilometers) long from north to south. The width is 688 miles (1,107 kilometers). There are no land boundaries; the country is bordered on the west by the South China Sea, on the east by...
Food security is the right of all people to have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. Food security is governed across scales from household and local to national and global and food security issues are typically diverse, complex and dynamic