Organic Agriculture as a Tool to Make Economy Green

2016 ◽  
pp. 221-245
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Guz ◽  
Ivan Ivolga
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Variable Quality

The main questions that trouble ecologists are concentrated on the state of the environment per square unit, while concerns of food security supporters are concentrated on a cost of production unit (which is bigger in comparison with standard for organic agriculture). Economists, in turn, are concerned about the low cost of decision for achievement of food security in comparison with environmental safety. The point, discussed in the chapter, is related to implementation of organic and traditional technologies of farming. It is expedient to estimate the changes of environment per units of production, if there is a set of food production and soils of a variable quality.

Organic Agriculture as a Tool to Make Economy Green

2015 ◽  
pp. 196-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Guz ◽  
Ivan Ivolga
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Variable Quality

The main questions that trouble ecologists are concentrated on the state of the environment per square unit, while concerns of food security supporters are concentrated on a cost of production unit (which is bigger in comparison with standard for organic agriculture). Economists, in turn, are concerned about the low cost of decision for achievement of food security in comparison with environmental safety. The point, discussed in the chapter, is related to implementation of organic and traditional technologies of farming. It is expedient to estimate the changes of environment per units of production, if there is a set of food production and soils of a variable quality.

Food Security in Hawai‘i

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kent
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
State Government ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
The State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Low Income Consumers

This chapter challenges the uncritical pursuit of food self-sufficiency that has been rationalized as increasing the state’s preparedness against shipping disruption. It argues that this effort might increase food’s cost, and reiterates the point that local food is not necessarily fair as low-income consumers could be sidelined in the push for food localization. In contrast to the enthusiasm for promoting agriculture and local food production in the state, relatively little has been done in addressing food insecurity of the poor, especially by the state government. Food democracy needs to consider food security for all—particularly the poor and the marginalized.

scholarly journals State management of the national food security in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 08011
Author(s):  
Minh Duc Tran
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Storage Process ◽  
State Management ◽  
The Status ◽  
Production Value ◽  
National Food Security

Ensuring national food security for the present and future under any circumstance is a current urgent and complicated issue in Vietnam in the context of climate change, disease and in the process of striving Vietnam to become an industrialized country towards modernization. Ensuring food security has become a legal issue for every country, including Vietnam. To ensure national food security, there is a need for a state management. Therefore, this paper focuses on analyzing the status of regulations and applying the law in a state management of food security. Based on a comparison with the achievement of the goal of national food security in Vietnam, the article points out some of the current limitations and shortcomings in the State management of food security; then, proposes some solutions to improve the efficiency of the state management in this area, including: good management of planning production land for food; improve the state management apparatus of the national food security; increasing investment in infrastructure and scientific research serving food production; review the role and effectiveness of each stage in the food production value chain; improve policies to ensure a reasonable and stable profit for people who producer, storage, process and distribute food.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION SUPPORT OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4(73)) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
L.E. KUPINETS ◽  
O.M. SHERSHUN
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Support ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Statistical Support ◽  
International Projects ◽  
State Of The Environment

Topicality. Since, according to the strategy of the state environmental policy of Ukraine for the period till 2030, one of the root causes of Ukraine's environmental problems is an inefficient system of public administration in the field of environmental protection, monitoring of its state, regulation of the use of natural resources and ensuring environmental safety, the question of improving information support of the country is especially relevant.Aim and tasks are to address the problems of processing and presenting environmental information in the context of Ukraine's international activity and to identify the country's real capabilities in providing environmentally valuable data in accordance with European requirements.Research results. The study outlines major international projects aimed at improving statistical support in the field of ecology, in which Ukraine has been participating in recent years, presents an analysis of the country's significant results upon completion of one of the projects. The main requirements of the current project for providing environmental information are also considered. Provision has been made of providing Ukraine with statistical information on environmental indicators of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe within the framework of the project and the actual availability of these indicators in the statistical documentation of Ukraine. One of the ways improve information support of Ukraine in the field of ecology is considered.Conclusion. It is justified that, despite the countries' participation in international projects aimed at improving statistical support in the field of ecology, Ukraine does not make the necessary efforts to obtain significant results in this area. It is analyzed that at the end of one of the projects in the field of data and information management on the state of the environment and their shared use, Ukraine from all the participating countries made almost the smallest contribution to the development of information support, and within the current project part of the indicators Ukraine does not provide despite the availability of necessary environmental information data in open sources.

scholarly journals The many meanings of organic farming: framing food security and food sovereignty in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Schreer ◽  
Martina Padmanabhan
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis paper contributes to the discourse on food policy, particularly in relation to organic farming in Indonesia. Organic farming was first adopted by non-state actors in Indonesia, by faith-based organisations and then by small farmer associations, while the state support for organic agriculture followed at a later date. The three groups, represented in this study by three case studies, adopt different positions with regard to the definition of organic agriculture and its relevance to food self-sufficiency, food security and food sovereignty. For Bina Sarana Bhakti Foundation (BSB), organic farming is both a spiritual worldview and a practical philosophy. For the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI), organic agriculture foremost is a political tool to resist global capitalist agriculture. Despite their very different outlooks, both these two civil society organisations see organic agriculture as a post-materialist enterprise directed towards explicitly social-political goals. By contrast, the government’s engagement in organic agriculture, although laced with evocative phrases such as “back to nature”, is driven primarily by visions of developing a new niche market for Indonesian exports. The Indonesian State adopts a one-dimensional productivist definition that excludes different meanings and traditions of organic farming. The reduction of the meaning of ‘organic’ to ‘organically certified products’ excludes farmers who consider that they are practicing organic agriculture. We conclude that there is a strong case to be made that the State should relax its regulatory grip on the organic sector, to create room for sorely needed innovation and cooperation among the different actors involved.

Human Life and Health as an Object of Environmental Law in the Globalised World

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Anatolii Getman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
State Of The Environment

The article examines the issues of legal protection of human life and health in the latest globalisation processes, which have covered all spheres of political, economic, financial, social, geographical and cultural life and are becoming a basic factor of humanity on the planet. These processes set new trends in the ecological development of the state, redefine the problems of environmental security due to the changing nature of the challenges and threats facing humanity. The unfavourable state of the environment and the need to ensure environmental safety require the adoption of adequate legal, organisational and other measures. It is believed that in these conditions a human, his life and health should be at the centre of the mechanism of legal regulation of protection and defence, environmental safety, especially the establishment of the legal status of citizens affected by the negative consequences of environmental danger and guarantees of such citizens. The state has a number of obligations to human to create conditions for his “environmental comfort”. Such obligations should be reflected in the environmental legislation of the respective states. Recently, urban areas have been becoming threatening, the uncontrolled expansion of which inevitably leads to disruption of the normal functioning of the biogeotic cover of the planet, and consequently – a negative impact on health and life of mankind and especially that part of it living in large cities or other cities. It turns out that the general unfavourable state of the environment makes new demands on environmental security, which in the context of globalisation and internalisation of environmental problems is becoming a dominant factor in global security, as the environmental situation worsens, requiring effective policies to improve it.

scholarly journals The National Interests of the Russian Federation in the Agricultural Sphere and Their Reflection in the New Food Security Doctrine

Legal Concept ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Yuri Bokov ◽  
Artem Mokhov
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Export Policy ◽  
The Russian Federation

Introduction: the changes in the social and economic situation in recent years and the sanctions policy towards the Russian Federation require adjustments to the main strategic interests and priorities of the Russian state’s policy in the field of agro-industrial complex and ensuring the country’s food security. The purpose of the work is to identify the main factors that influence the formation of new principles and interests of the state in the field of food security, their reflection in the basic documents on ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation. The methodological framework for the study is the method of scientific analysis, as well as the comparative method. The result of the research is to determine the main trends in the legal support of food security in the context of the constitutional and agrarian legislation reform. Conclusions: in comparison with the previous documents, it is concluded that the list of the state interests, goals and objectives in the field of agriculture is enlarged by strengthening the requirements of social security and social protection, as well as expanding national agricultural production in order to achieve a state of food independence, ensuring the export policy. In the context of the July 2020 decisions the all-Russian vote on Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation justifies the increased importance of food security issues, creating conditions for improving the standard of living of citizens, social obligations of the state in the field of agriculture, and sustainable development of rural territories. It is pointed out that it is necessary to take into account the requirements of environmental safety in the strategic planning in the agri-food sector.

scholarly journals Observatorio en Seguridad Alimentaria del Estado de Veracruz (OBSAN-UV). Actualización y análisis. Segunda parte

UVserva ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lol Ki Itzel López Galindo ◽  
María Magdalena Álvarez Ramírez ◽  
Jose Luis Castillo Hernández ◽  
Virginia Morales P. ◽  
Amy B. Morales Q.
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
The State ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Acute Respiratory Infections ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Official Information

El Observatorio en Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional del Estado de Veracruz es actualizado periódicamente con información oficial. Con la finalidad de conocer la realidad en Seguridad Alimentaria en Veracruz, se analizaron diversos indicadores (per cápita, sumatorias, promedios y correlaciones), encontrándose: baja producción de alimentos per cápita, alto índice de rezago social en algunos municipios, así como un aumento en la población desocupada, en los hogares con jefatura femenina, y prevalencia de malnutrición en menores de edad, también se observó un aumento en la incidencia de VIH en la población.  Las infecciones respiratorias agudas en niños de 0-4 años en el periodo de 2007-2015 disminuyeron un 77%. La mayoría de los indicadores analizados nos muestran condiciones de inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional en la población del Estado de Veracruz.Palabras clave: Seguridad alimentaria; municipio; indicadores; malnutrición; correlaciones AbstractThe Observatory on Food and Nutrition Security of the State of Veracruz is periodically updated with official information. In order to know the reality in Food Security in Veracruz, several indicators were analyzed (per capita, summations, averages and correla­tions), finding: low food production per capi­ta, high rate of social lag in some municipali­ties, as well as an increase in the unoccupied population, in households headed by women, and prevalence of malnutrition in minors, an increase in the incidence of HIV in the popu­lation was also observed. Acute respiratory infections in children aged 0-4 years in the 2007-2015 period decreased by 77%. Most of the analyzed indicators show us conditions of food and nutrition insecurity in the population of the State of Veracruz.Keywords: Food security; municipality; indica­tors; malnutrition; correlations

scholarly journals The Formation of the International Imperatives of the National (Food) Security Coefficient in Ukraine under Globalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 455-475
Author(s):  
Svitlana Khalatur ◽  
Kateryna Zhylenko ◽  
Ihor Vinichenko ◽  
Olena Trokhymets ◽  
Lesia Kriuchko
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Index ◽  
Food Security Indicators ◽  
Security Indicators ◽  
Multifactor Regression ◽  
National Food Security ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of the study is to review the academic literature on food security issues in order to examine the indicators of rational and minimal nutrition, facilitating the analysis of the existing system of indicators by which to assess the state of the food security system in a country. The aim of the article is to investigate and demonstrate the imperatives behind the formation of Ukraine’s national (food) security in the context of globalization. National food security in the broad sense should be considered as the state of the economy, and more narrowly – as the guaranteed ability of a state to meet the needs of the population by providing each citizen with the required volume, range and quality of food at a level that ensures the health and intellectual development of the individual, based on the principles of self-sufficiency of basic products and their economic and physical accessibility, regardless of the influence of external and internal factors. The Global Food Security Index Ranks of the European Union and Ukraine are analyzed. Consumer expenditure on food consumed at home in Ukraine is analyzed in the article. Average food security indicators of the EU and Ukraine are analyzed for 2001–2018, in particular for food exports, food imports, food production index, food, beverages and tobacco. The dynamics and forecasts of wheat and maize harvest and crop production in Ukraine and the EU are compared. The analysis of the Suite of Food Security Indicators of the EU and Ukraine is presented alongside a comprehensive analysis of the multifactor regression model of Food Production Index from foreign direct investment, net inflows, GDP growth, GNI per capita growth, short-term debt, tax revenue, total natural resources rents, and trade. The analysis has shown that for the analysis of the food production index it is effective to build a regression model, because it allows not only to estimate the degree of influence of the factor on the result, but also to most effectively predict the size of the food production index for the future.

Food Security Ensurance in Vietnam Today

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dung Pham Van
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The State ◽  
International Integration ◽  
Paddy Farmers

Today, food security and national food secuirty ensurance should be viewed from the perspetive of the market economy and the international integration because these constantly changing contexts have significant impacts on those issues. After over 30 years of innovation, though the State has addressed the food secuirty related issues effectively, Vietnam is still facing with enormous challenges and instabilities. Therefore, Vietnam should consider and amend food production and export activities in size and quality; build mechanism, policy to facilitate paddy farmers,... The State has to ensure food security while it should satisfy the market’s requirements, ensure income of paddy farmers, and needs of food enterprises.

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