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Urbanisation and Evolving Food Security Challenges

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Abstract

Little attention has been paid to the impact of urbanisation on food insecurity in the context of Malthusian and post-Malthusian studies. In addition, there has been little investigation into the evolving nature of food insecurity and the way urbanisation affects food insecurity risks in different human development contexts. This chapter examines the above research problems by drawing evidence from post-Malthusian literature and policy-oriented research in the area of food security and sustainable development. While traditionally the debate has focused on undernutrition and hunger as the only outcomes of food insecurity, the chapter posits that obesity constitutes a major contemporary food insecurity threat. Drawing from Popkin’s nutrition transition theory, the chapter discusses how obesity and evolving nutrition challenges are increasingly linked to the impacts of urbanisation, such as contemporary lifestyles in urban areas. The chapter provides a revised conceptual framework of food insecurity risks and a conceptual analysis of factors affecting global food insecurity.

The quest for food security can be the common thread that links the different challenges we face and helps build a sustainable future (José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the FAO 2012a, b).

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Notes

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    Although the list of LDCs and the list of countries with low human development (as per the HDI ranking) are very similar, they are treated distinctly because they are based on a different set of criteria.

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    Cereals were used to approximate food because cereals are the main components of human diet (in terms of kilocalories).

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    Regions defined by WHO.

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