Is it a must/need to achieve food sufficiency? What is the acceptable level of food sufficiency recommended for a country? (rice for example, when it is the staple food for certain country)
Beside satisfyong basic needs, achieving self- sufficiency in basic food is important for national ecomony as it gets less dependant on imports or food aid that is often related to some economic or political benefits by providers. Someone ince said that food is strategic pllitical weapon.
The level of agricultural water is an important benchmark in cultivating crops. if it is at a low level, it is not logical to produce crops that need to be flooded with water (e.g., melon and rice). A carefully planned food sufficiency program must follow a cogent and comprehensive framework whereby the balance between imports and exports is very crucial.
Beside satisfyong basic needs, achieving self- sufficiency in basic food is important for national ecomony as it gets less dependant on imports or food aid that is often related to some economic or political benefits by providers. Someone ince said that food is strategic pllitical weapon.
Dear Rafiq Idris
Yes, it is a MUST to achieve food sufficiency because it is a strategic political weapon as Mirna Leko-Šimić said. The acceptable level of food sufficiency is achieved in a country when crop production + importation - exportation => total consumption needs.
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Yes Reza Biria, It is important to improve food sufficiency level by increasing food production, hence reducing the import of staple food.
Country should aim to be food secure where by the population to access food in right amounts, all nutrients. So every citizen get access to food .
The concept of food self-sufficiency is generally taken to mean the extent to which a country can satisfy its food needs from its own domestic production.
Given the prevalence of trade in today’s global economy, a more pragmatic understanding of food self-sufficiency is domestic food production that is equal to or exceeds 100% of a country’s food consumption. Trade is not ruled out within this definition, as food self-sufficiency is defined by the ratio of food produced to food consumed at the domestic level. Understood this way, food self-sufficiency is not necessarily focused on where specific foods are grown, but rather on a country’s domestic food production capacity. Under this definition, self-sufficient countries may still pursue a degree of agricultural specialization in order to trade these foods with other countries. The key point is that food self-sufficient countries produce an amount of food that is equal to or greater than the amount of food that they consume. A key indicator that captures this more practical understanding of the concept is the self-sufficiency ratio (SSR), which expresses food production as a ratio of available supply .
we could estimate how much rice a country needs if we knew how much rice is bought in the country over a year. this might be a measure. Then it will be necessary to check whether this country can produce the quantity of rice that it needs.
Please, we should avoid confusion between food sufficiency that considers food from any source and food self-sufficiency that is limited to domestic production. The question of Rafiq Idris is about food sufficiency.
Regards!
Yes, it is very important to provide a sufficient and high quality food for different nations, moreover, the recognition the recommended levels of the various nutrients is must, because sources of these nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, micro nutrients.... etc can be supplied and accessed by various foods,.
Pierre Nobossé But when we talk about sufficiency in the financial system in which we live, we will definitely have to calculate the money factor. If we have sufficient resources at world level, but citizens do not have access to them, then what is the point? Ιnadequate production leads to trade.
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