Food security

• Factors which affect food security;

  • Natural disasters
  • New pathogens and pests
  • Increase birth rate
  • Change in diet
  • Environmental changes
  • Cost of agricultural inputs
  • War
  • Availability of water and food
• Ways to increase food chain efficiency;

  • Restricting movement
  • Reducing number of levels in chain
  • Keep organisms in warm conditions (inside)
• Sustainable agriculture - production of food and plant or animal products using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities and animal welfare.