Food Security and Food Poverty

What Food Security and Food Poverty covers

Food Security and Food Poverty is examined in Unit A2 1 Option A, Food Security and Sustainability — one of two options. It covers food security and the threat from climate change, land degradation and population growth, food poverty as a global issue, food poverty in the UK and Northern Ireland and food banks, FareShare and the Trussell Trust.

The 5 subtopics

Each one has its own page.

• Food security and the threat from climate changeThe four pillars of food security, the UK's self-sufficiency, and how drought, flooding, pests, warming seas and rising sea level threaten food supplies.Open →
• Land degradation and population growthIntensive farming, monoculture, fertiliser, hedgerow loss, overgrazing, desertification and irrigation, and how population growth and urbanisation affect food security.Open →
• Food poverty as a global issueFood poverty and food insecurity worldwide, conflict and poverty as causes, stunting, wasting, hidden hunger, the double burden of malnutrition and emergency food aid.Open →
• Food poverty in the UK and Northern IrelandFood insecurity in Northern Ireland, groups at risk, rising prices, heat or eat, debt and the poverty premium, free school meals, holiday hunger and Healthy Start.Open →
• Food banks, FareShare and the Trussell TrustHow Trussell food banks work and how their use has changed, FareShare's redistribution of surplus food, community pantries and an evaluation of food banks.Open →

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Commonly confused

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• Food bank vs FareShare

  Food bank: a charity handing emergency parcels directly to people in crisis on referral. FareShare: a national charity redistributing industry surplus in bulk to frontline charities.

• Stunting vs Wasting

  Stunting: low height for age caused by long-term undernutrition. Wasting: low weight for height showing recent severe weight loss.

• Availability vs Access

  Availability: enough supply produced, stored or imported for a whole population. Access: the ability of each household to afford and physically reach enough to eat.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

1. 1

   Define food security.

   Model answer

   Food security exists when all people, at all times, can get enough safe and nutritious food for an active, healthy life. The definition was agreed at the 1996 World Food Summit.

2. 2

   Name the four pillars of food security.

   Model answer

   The four pillars of food security are availability, access, utilisation and stability.

3. 3

   What does the availability pillar of food security refer to?

   Model answer

   Availability means enough food is produced, stored or imported to supply the whole population.

4. 4

   How does access differ from availability in food security?

   Model answer

   Access is whether people can afford food and physically reach it. A country can have plenty of food while poorer households still cannot obtain it.

5. 5

   What is meant by utilisation in food security?

   Model answer

   Utilisation is whether the body can make good use of the food eaten. Safe water, sanitation, good health and food knowledge all affect it.

6. 6

   Why is stability counted as a pillar of food security?

   Model answer

   Stability means availability, access and utilisation hold steady over time. A household that eats well only until a price spike or a failed harvest is not food secure.

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What does Food Security and Food Poverty cover in CCEA A-Level Nutrition and Food Science?

5 subtopics: food security and the threat from climate change, land degradation and population growth, food poverty as a global issue, food poverty in the uk and northern ireland and food banks, fareshare and the trussell trust. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Food Security and Food Poverty organised?

By the CCEA 3310 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.