The urban area should clearly get ways in which they should enhance and maintain food production in a cheaper and right way

1. FOOD INSECURITY
PREPARED BY ANGELA,ISAAC,JOSEPH AND
ESTHER

2. What is Food Insecurity?
• The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as
existing “when all people at all times have access to sufficient,
safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”.
Food insecurity certainly isn’t a new thing, since the dawn of
humanity there have been those who don’t know where their
next meal is coming from. That insecurity can range in severity
from occasional meal uncertainty to full blown famine. One
factor in the IPC Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table that
determines the breaking point between Phase 1 mild food
security and Phase 2 stressed food insecurity is the likelihood
that someone suffering from food insecurity might break the law
in order to eat or provide food for one’s family

3. URBAN AGRICULTURE AND
COMMUNITY GARDENING
Community gardens promote healthy communities and provide food
security for many low income persons. In an urban setting, community
gardens are part of the open space network.
The gardens and those who participate in community gardening
contribute to the preservation of open space, provide access to it, and
create sustainable uses of the space.
Community gardens strengthen community bonds, provide food, and
create recreational and therapeutic opportunities for a community. They
can also promote environmental awareness and provide community
education

4. Urban agriculture includes greenbelts around cities, farming at the
city’s edge, vegetable plots in community gardens, and food
production in thousands of vacant inner-city lots.
Further, urban agriculture comprises fish farms, farm animals at
public housing sites, municipal compost facilities, schoolyard
greenhouses, restaurant-supported salad gardens, backyard orchards,
rooftop gardens and beehives, window box gardens, and much more.
Urban farming includes horticulture, aquaculture, arboriculture, and
poultry and animal husbandry.
The potential for food production in cities is great, and dozens of
model projects are demonstrating successfully that urban agriculture
is both necessary and viable.

5. URBAN AGRICULTURE

6. EFFECTS OF FOOD INSECURITY
Food insecurity, whether related to actual food insufficiency,
nutritional quality, or anxiety about a future lack of food, affects
the quality of life of urban residents in far-reaching ways.
Inadequate nutrition is clearly associated with school and work
absences, fatigue, and problems with concentration.
Hunger and poor nutrition are also linked to the increased
incidence and virulence of infectious diseases, many of which--such
as TB--are on the rise in the cities.
Furthermore, the lack of a nutritious diet is a well-known risk
factor for any number of chronic diseases such as diabetes,
hypertension, and heart failure

7. Even when cash is available to low-income urban
residents, food is not always so readily accessible. Many
supermarkets have closed or moved from the inner city
due to complex market forces related to the increasing
impoverishment of their clientele and the deterioration
and depopulation of once vibrant communities
Thus ironically, people on limited incomes in cities are
likely to pay more for their food than wealthier shoppers
in higher income neighborhoods. The range, freshness,
and quality of foods are also often compromised in inner-city
groceries, thus further limiting customers’ maximal
choices for nutritious and affordable meals.

9. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY
With agriculture contributing 85 percent of export earnings and almost 75
percent of national employment, including employing most of the country’s
poor, improvements in the sector are necessary to expand Uganda’s
economy and reduce poverty. USAID’s agriculture programs address these
challenges by reducing food insecurity and increasing household incomes
It brings efforts work to transform subsistence farms into more
commercial operations and also works to increase farmers’ skills in
improved production, post-harvest handling and storage technologies.
Agricultural programs focus on creating trade linkages and on making
products more competitive in national, regional and international markets.
Agricultural training for farmers by agriculture dealers develop their
business skills and technical capacity to increase their participation in
national and regional trade.

10. AGRICULTURE AND
FOOD SECURITY

11. FACTS
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), food
security is built on three pillars:
i. Food availability: sufficient quantities of food available on a
consistent basis.
ii. Food access: having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate
foods for a nutritious diet.
iii. Food use: appropriate use based on knowledge of basic
nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation.

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