scholarly journals Analysis of Structural Changes in Food Accessibility Assurance in Russia and Its Macroregions Through Food Security

2021 ◽  
Vol 666 (5) ◽  
pp. 052028
Author(s):  
I V Zhupley ◽  
Ju I Schmidt ◽  
N A Tretiak
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Food Accessibility

Food Security Doctrine – What Has Changed in 2020

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
T.M. Yarkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Social Bias ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
And Control

This article presents an analysis of the changes that have occurred in one of the most important state documents - the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. Criticism of this document can be traced in many scientific works: some experts attribute the Doctrine only to a program document, while others expect it to be implement and control, i.e. much more in practice. An assessment of the significance and essence of such a document as the doctrine as a whole made it possible to determine its place both in the system of public administration and the degree of its significance in the regulatory field. Based on the findings, an attempt was made to analyze changes in the new Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation, approved by Decree of the President of Russia No. 20 of 01.21.2020. Structural changes in the new Doctrine are highlighted, as well as a critical assessment of the features of all its main sections. The greatest changes were revealed in the state food security assessment system, and it was also determined that the new version of the Doctrine has a greater social bias. If there are positive changes, some omissions of the most important areas of agri-food policy have been identified, which, despite their absence or insufficient reflection in the Doctrine, can be presented and decided at the level of subsequent documents, but only if the Doctrine in practice will be a fundamental document of public administration and regulatory framework.

scholarly journals Analysis of Trade-offs between Food Security and Water-Land Savings through Food Trade and Structural Changes of Virtual Water Trade in the Arab World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hyun Lee ◽  
Rabi H. Mohtar ◽  
Seung-Hwan Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Virtual Water Trade ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Crop Area ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract. The aim of this study is to analyze the impacts of food trade on food security and water-land savings in the Arab World in terms of virtual water trade (VWT). We estimated the total volume of virtual water imported for four major crops – barley, maize, rice, and wheat – from 2000 to 2012, and assessed their impacts on water and land savings, and food security. The largest volume of virtual water was imported by Egypt (19.9 billion m3/year), followed by Saudi Arabia (13.0 billion m3/year). Accordingly, Egypt would save 13.1 billion m3 in irrigation water and 2.1 million ha of crop area through importing crops. In addition, connectivity and influence of each country in the VWT network was analyzed using degree and eigenvector centralities. The study revealed that the Arab World focused more on increasing the volume of virtual water imported during the period 2006–2012 with little attention to the expansion of connections with country exporters, which is a vulnerable expansion. This study shed light on opportunities and risks associated with VWT and its role in food security and land management in the Arab World.

scholarly journals Dietary behaviors, food accessibility, and handling practices during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Benin

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. S8-S18
Author(s):  
Polycarpe Ulbad Tougan ◽  
Eléonore Yayi-Ladekan ◽  
Ibrahim Imorou-Toko ◽  
Detondji Camille Guidime ◽  
André Thewis
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Dietary Behaviors ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Factorial Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Food Handling ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Handling Practices ◽  
Food Handling Practices

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is already affecting all food systems in sub-Saharan Africa including Benin. Aim: The study aimed to determine the dietary behaviors, food accessibility, and handling practices during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Benin and the relationship between these components. Methods: A survey was carried out with 600 respondents in Benin. Data collected were analyzed using SAS and R statistical software. A hierarchical cluster analysis based on the characteristics of the households and their food access, utilization, and handling practices on the most significant components of AFC was then performed. Results: It comes out from the study that hunger and food security levels from 2000 to 2019 in Benin remain unsatisfying and inadequate. This situation had been exacerbated by the new coronavirus pandemic. About food access during COVID-19, 80% of respondents found that their dietary needs had been challenged by the COVID-19 restriction measures. This challenge affects infants as well as children, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, elderly people, and people with a chronic disease. Overall, the price of the food products had increased on the local market, and this change in the price limit the ability of 80% of households to acquire sufficient and safe food. The factorial correspondence analysis of the dietary behaviors and food handling practices during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Benin discriminated three groups of households corresponding to 3 types of dietary behaviors and food handling practices. Conclusion: Preservation of food values chain, improvement of food environment in Benin, and nutritional support of low-resilient populations should be the main way to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 on food security, nutrition, and food safety. Keywords: Benin, dietary behaviors, food access, hygiene, SARS-CoV-2.

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE MILK PRODUCTION SECTOR AND FOOD SECURITY – THE CASE OF POLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol XXI (2) ◽  
pp. 318-327
Author(s):  
Maria Zuba-Ciszewska
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Cow Milk ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Market Output ◽  
Milk Market

The aim of the work was to find an answer to the question of how the changes in the milk production sector in Poland, following the marketization of the economy, influenced the country’s food security in the context of food self-sufficiency. The paper uses cow milk balances developed by the Central Statistical Office and data concerning the distribution of domestic milk production from the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics National Research Institute. The study used a comparative analysis over time, indicators as well as descriptive and graphic methods. The indicators used concerned milk market output, food self-sufficiency and the milk balance structure. During the first few years of transformation, there was a sharp drop in domestic milk production. Since 2004, there has been, with minor exceptions, a systematic increase in production with a previous general fall in production volume. These processes were accompanied by changes resulting from the transformation of the economy in the milk production sector. These were associated with a drastic reduction, since 1990, of the number of farms involved in milk production and the decline in the number of dairy cows, albeit with a simultaneous increase in milk yield. The milk market output index increased. In 2015, resource in the milk balance returned to the level of 1991, i.e. over 14.5 bln liters. In 2017, this figure amounted to 15 bln liters. Domestic milk production is the main source of resource, though the volume of imports is significantly increasing. Despite dynamic growth of exports, milk is mainly used for domestic consumption. From 1990 onwards, Poland has significantly improved its self-sufficiency in milk production. Changes in milk production have significantly influenced food security in the country.

scholarly journals Modeling the Effect of Climate Change and Economic Growth on food Security Indicators in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 909-917
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Availability ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Food Security Indicators ◽  
Security Indicators ◽  
Positive Effect

Hunger is on the rise in almost all sub-regions of Africa, where the prevalence of undernourishment has reached levels of 22.8 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the effect of economic growth and climatic factors on food security in Ghana using different functional forms of regression analysis. Annual secondary data on food security indicators, gross domestic product, CO2 , rainfall and temperature spanning from 1999 to 2017 were obtained from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Bank websites. The principal component analysis and regression method were used to reduce the dimensionality of the variable and model the effect of economic growth and climatic factors on food security in Ghana respectively. The dimensions of food availability, stability and utilization were reduced from 5, 6 and 9 variables to 2 variables respectively. However, the dimension of food accessibility was reduced from 3 variables to 1 variable. Food Security Index (FSI) was constructed for each of the food security indicators, and competing models were fitted to the data. It was observed that, GDP has a positive effect on food accessibility, availability, stability and utilization. However, temperature negatively affects food accessibility and stability but a positive effect on food utilization. Rainfall has a negative effect on food stability and CO2 has a negative effect on food availability, stability and utilization.

scholarly journals Climatic Changes and Vulnerability of Household Food Accessibility: A Study on Malaysian East Coast Economic Region

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Chamhuri Siwar ◽  
Basri Talib ◽  
Abu N.M. Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Low Income ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Economic Region ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Household Food

Purpose: Sustainable food security at the household level is one of the emerging issues for all nations. Several factors such as social, economic, political, demographic, natural, and livelihood strategies cause vulnerability in the status of household food security. This study is an attempt to examine the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility and its linkage with the climatic changes in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on primary data collected in the months of July – October, 2012 through a questionnaire survey on 460 low-income households from the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) in Malaysia. The samples were selected from E-Kasih poor household database, based on the cluster random sampling technique. The questionnaire uses a five-point Likert scale, and the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA F statistics for Chi-Square Two Sample Test.Findings: The study finds that the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility has increased statistically and significantly over the last five years in Malaysia, whereas the contributions of climatic factors are low on these changes. This study suggests that the food security programs in Malaysia need to be integrated with the climatic change adaptation programs to ensure more effective and sustainable household food security in the future.Originality/value: This study is an original work based on primary data that empirically measures the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility, one of the important dimensions of household food security, and its linkage with climatic changes.

Climatic changes and vulnerability of household food accessibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 387-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Chamhuri Siwar ◽  
Basri Abdul Talib ◽  
Abu N.M. Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Household Food

Purpose Sustainable food security at the household level is one of the emerging issues for all nations. Several factors such as social, economic, political, demographic, natural and livelihood strategies cause vulnerability in the status of household food security. This study aims to examine the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility and its linkage with the climatic changes in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on primary data collected in the months of July-October, 2012, through a questionnaire survey on 460 low-income households from the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) in Malaysia. The samples were selected from E-Kasih poor household database, based on the cluster random sampling technique. The questionnaire uses a five-point Likert scale, and the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA F statistics for chi-square two-sample test. Findings The study finds that the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility has increased statistically and significantly over the past five years in Malaysia, whereas the contributions of climatic factors are low on these changes. This study suggests that the food security programs in Malaysia need to be integrated with the climatic change adaptation programs to ensure more effective and sustainable household food security in the future. Originality/value This study is an original work based on primary data that empirically measures the vulnerability of the factors of household food accessibility, one of the important dimensions of household food security, and its linkage with climatic changes.

scholarly journals Challenges in Food Security, Nutritional, and Social Public Policies for Venezuela: Rethinking the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianella Herrera-Cuenca ◽  
Maritza Landaeta Jimenez ◽  
Yaritza Sifontes
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
Correct Path ◽  
Security Indicators

Food security in Venezuela presents signs of individual, family, community and national deterioration. The food and nutrition system has been weakened by the decrease in the production and the installation of parallel, irregular and insufficient distribution networks. Economic turmoil, political instability, hyperinflation, and poverty, the highest in recent history, limit the population's income and the access to quality food. The transition from capitalism to state-centered socialism has not been successful in ensuring enough foods for Venezuelans and the effect on the well-being of the population has been detrimental. This study proposes to design a public policy model based on the analysis of food security indicators, to generate an integrated framework of actions. The proposed model considers Dunn's classic public policy approach (2017) and the criteria of the Public Health Tools/Community Nutrition Program-Nutritional Care Process: Nutrition Care Process (NCP) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2012. The World Food Program survey on food security in Venezuela 2019, and the HumVenezuela.com 2020 platform were used. The integrated model includes two levels, one for bringing assistance to the most vulnerable and the other for strategic planning of structural, legal and institutional problems, and health and food safety gaps, in an ethical and moral framework that challenges corruption and promotes education and culture of peace. It is necessary for public policies to have parallel levels of actions to assist those most in need and to face long-term structural changes, which should begin as soon as possible, to ensure the correct path toward development.

scholarly journals Impact of stock health on fish prices: Evaluation and implications for food accessibility

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261580
Author(s):  
Marceliano Rodriguez ◽  
Domingo Calvo-Dopico ◽  
Estefanía Mourelle
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Bluefin Tuna ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Dummy Variables ◽  
Major Point ◽  
Dummy Variable ◽  
Panel Model ◽  
Global Agenda

The continuous rise of the world’s population has made food security a major point of the global agenda, with fisheries providing a key source of nutrition, especially in developing countries. Ensuring their health is key to maintain the availability of the resource, but its effect over accessibility is yet unclear. In this paper, we discuss the relevance of stock health for ensuring the price accessibility of the resource. A Least Square Dummy Variable panel model is proposed for bluefin tuna prices, with a biological explanatory component, and dummy variables reflecting changes in fishing trends. Both have proven to be significant to explain annual price variations, with improvements in stock health achieving price reductions.

scholarly journals ІНСТРУМЕНТИ ТА МЕХАНІЗМИ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ СТАЛОГО РОЗВИТКУ СУБ’ЄКТІВ ГОСПОДАРЮВАННЯ ПЛОДООВОЧЕВОЇ ГАЛУЗІ УКРАЇНИ

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Nataliia Vdovenko ◽  
Nataliia Korobova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Security Market ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable ◽  
Business Entities

Sustainable development of economic entities is based on the implementation of three main aspects of activity: economic, social and environmental. At the same time, "development" reflects the process of changing a particular object. It has already happened that transformations and changes are irreversible in the sectors of economy, as evidenced by the ability to expand reproduction. This also applies to the fruit and vegetable industry, as one of the promising sectors of the national economy related to food security. At the same time, combining the values of three elements, it is necessary to update the search for basic approaches to ensuring the sustainable development of economic entities in the fruit and vegetable industry. In the article, mechanisms for regulating the development of fruit and vegetable production in Ukraine are disclosed. The fruit and vegetable industry needs the latest tools, which should be aimed at maintaining a stable economic situation, ensuring food security, market conditions and an adequate level of profitability of the fruit and vegetable industry is substantiated. Assistance in adapting business entities to the new conditions of functioning of the national economy is offered. Self-elimination of the state from stimulation of innovative processes and support of high-tech production of fruits and vegetables, has led to structural changes in the economy it was concluded. Small fluctuations in supply volumes, due to many uncontrolled entities, for reasons such as high or low yields, lead to a decrease or increase in prices for fruit and vegetables it has been shown that. The instruments of state intervention in the fruit and vegetable sector include measures of financial influence using the mechanisms of lending, market regulation, tax policy, direct budget subsidies. Tools for weakening the decline processes of high-tech business entities and the dominance of raw materials that are weak in the technological unit of farms in the conditions of transformation processes are proposed.

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