Impacts of Food Insecurity

• soil erosion


  Long term damage caused by overgrazing and overcultivating
• Malnourishment

  not eating enough nutrients stunts a child’s growth and development and therefore reduces life expenctancy
• Rising food prices


  If demand is high and stock is low, prices will rise
• Famine (definition) 


  Extreme scarcity of food which can lead to death
• Social unrest


  Starvation leads to people blaming the government which leads to riots, civil wars, or revolutions