Abstract
The study investigated the rising global food security crisis. Emphasis was placed on the strategic implication of this menace, and this was done with a focus on Nigeria. To carry out the study effectively, secondary data was used. The rising global food security crisis is occasioned by rising global food prices. This is also accompanied by scarcity of staple food sources. It was discovered that there was indeed a rising global food security crisis, and that the strategic implication of this is rarely investigated. Causes of global food security crisis include global high cost of energy, use of bio fuel based energy, increase in global population and demand for food, climate change, under investment in agriculture production, armed conflict corruption and bad government in Africa. The strategic implication of food security included general insecurity health problems migration environmental degradation etc. The outbreak of COVID-19 brought to the knowledge of all that a combination of short-term responses and long term investment driver of foodinsecurity. It was concluded that there is indeed a rising global food security crisis. It was therefore recommended that the United States (U.S.) and other donor countries should make agriculture and rural development is priority in its internal assistance programmes. It was also recommended that since global security challenges, such as terrorism are linked to food security crisis and poverty in general, current international and local efforts should include measures that put food on every citizens’ table by way of frustrating and eradication of terrorism, recommendation also includes the development of practical strategies to improve agricultural practices such as food storage should be researched and developed being a major challenge faced by developing countries. Keywords: Food Security, Poverty, Food storage, rising prices, insecurity, global health and armed conflicts. DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/11-4-05 Publication date: May 31 st 2021
Highlights
There is a global food security crisis
China and India continue to experience high demand for cereal and other food material. This results from their growing middle classes, which causes increase strain on global supplies, China with a current population of 1.3 billion has almost doubled its consumption of meat, fish, and dairy products since 1990 as over 200 million people have been lifted out of poverty (Alexandratos, 2012)
There is a growing global food security crisis. This crisis is global in the sense that affects the developed nations, the developing countries and the Third World Countries. This crisis is manifested by an increasing global food price hike, accompanied with shortage of staple food source and future cropping and harvesting
Summary
There is a global food security crisis. The U.N food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was determined that since the 1990, close 2 billion people across the globe suffer from hunger and chronic nutrient deficiencies (FAO, 2006). The potentially high degree of context specificity implies that the concept had both lost is simplicity and was not itself a goal, but an intermediating set of actions that contribute to an active and healthy life (in Shaw, 2007) the World Food Summit of 1996 defined Food security, at the individual household, national regional and global levels (is achieved) when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their www.iiste.org dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. This became the widely accepted definition of food security because it emphasized the multidimensional nature of food security of and includes food availability, access food use and stability
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