Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward
Access to sufficient, nutritious food is an urgent, mounting global problem that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, up to 30% of the global population faced food insecurity, a 4% increase from the preceding year, with great variation across regions (1). The highest levels of foo...
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| author | Jemilah, Mahmood * Rajaram, Nadia N * Guinto, Renzo R * |
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| description | Access to sufficient, nutritious food is an urgent, mounting global problem that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, up to 30% of the global population faced food insecurity, a 4% increase from the preceding year, with great variation across regions (1). The highest levels of food insecurity were reported in the African continent, where more than half the population (59%) reported poor access to food (1). The largest impact of the pandemic, however, was observed in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the pandemic led to an almost 10% increase in food insecurity in just over a year, resulting in 41% of the population living with food insecurity (1). In Asia, the prevalence of food insecurity increased by 3% to 26% in 2020 (1). The pandemic highlighted how vulnerable current food systems are, especially in emerging economies that rely on large-scale agriculture and international food trade. Without intervention, the global food-insecure population is expected to rise by another 10% by 2050 (2), or more if another global catastrophe strikes. |
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| spelling | sunway-22022023-05-17T10:01:37Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2202/ Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward Jemilah, Mahmood * Rajaram, Nadia N * Guinto, Renzo R * GE Environmental Sciences QC Physics Access to sufficient, nutritious food is an urgent, mounting global problem that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, up to 30% of the global population faced food insecurity, a 4% increase from the preceding year, with great variation across regions (1). The highest levels of food insecurity were reported in the African continent, where more than half the population (59%) reported poor access to food (1). The largest impact of the pandemic, however, was observed in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the pandemic led to an almost 10% increase in food insecurity in just over a year, resulting in 41% of the population living with food insecurity (1). In Asia, the prevalence of food insecurity increased by 3% to 26% in 2020 (1). The pandemic highlighted how vulnerable current food systems are, especially in emerging economies that rely on large-scale agriculture and international food trade. Without intervention, the global food-insecure population is expected to rise by another 10% by 2050 (2), or more if another global catastrophe strikes. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2022-12-22 Article PeerReviewed Jemilah, Mahmood * and Rajaram, Nadia N * and Guinto, Renzo R * (2022) Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 29 (6). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2180-4303 https://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2022.29.6.1 10.21315/mjms2022.29.6.1 |
| spellingShingle | GE Environmental Sciences QC Physics Jemilah, Mahmood * Rajaram, Nadia N * Guinto, Renzo R * Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title | Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title_full | Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title_fullStr | Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title_full_unstemmed | Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title_short | Addressing food insecurity and climate change in Malaysia: Current Evidence and Way Forward |
| title_sort | addressing food insecurity and climate change in malaysia: current evidence and way forward |
| topic | GE Environmental Sciences QC Physics |
| url | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2202/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2202/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2202/ |