Nutrition Security: Global, National, Community, and Individual Factors Affecting Food Access and Health
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This paper examines nutrition security as a multifaceted concept encompassing access to nutritious food, water, and health services necessary for active and healthy living. It identifies and categorizes the global, national, community, and individual factors that either promote or inhibit nutritional security, demonstrating how these factors operate across multiple levels to influence food production and dietary outcomes.
What this essay covers
- Definition and components of nutrition security and food security pillars (stability, utilization, access, availability)
- Global factors promoting (sustainable agriculture, genetic diversity, women empowerment) and inhibiting (aging population, global warming, aquifer overuse) nutritional security
- National, community, and individual level factors affecting nutrition security with corresponding facilitating and obstructing elements
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Nutrition security is based on the concept that every person, regardless of their background, should have access to a nutritious diet of water and food. Such should be accompanied by suitable health services sanitary environment, and care that enhance an active and healthy life of all members in a household (Nordin et al., 2013). Nutrition security comprises of food security, which exists when all people in the society have economic, social, and physical access to nutritious, safe, and sufficient food that meets their dietary demands. Food security has pillars such as stability, utilization, access, and availability. Nutrition insecurity denotes deficiencies such as overweight and underweight. Overweight is caused by excess intake of minerals and vitamins, while underweight is caused by the inadequate intake of minerals and vitamins.
The global factors that promote nutritional security include sustainable agriculture, genetic diversity, and women empowerment. Besides, the global factors that inhibit food security include an increase in the aging population, global warming, and the overuse of underground aquifers. Women empowerment, sustainable agriculture, and genetic diversity cause an increase in food production. In contrast, the rise in the aging population, overuse of underground aquifers, and global warming cause a reduction in the production of food.
The national factors that inhibit nutritional security include increased food costs, reduction of social assistance, and drought. In contrast, the factors that enhance food security include accessible healthcare, education system, and the reduction of non-communicable illnesses.