期刊名称：World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities. Food Security Assessment
出版年度：1998
卷号：10
页码：4-4
出版社：U. S. Department of Agriculture
摘要：Global food supplies continue to grow faster than population.
According to FAO data, average world calorie consumption
was about 2,745 per day in 1996, up nearly 9 percent
from 1980. The Economic Research Service projects
this trend of rising per capita food supplies to continue
through the next decade. If the available food was divided
equally, each and every person would be able to consume
more than the minimum nutritional requirement (a target of
2,100 calories per day is used in this report). However, the
level and growth in food consumption vary among countries.
While food consumption is growing in higher income
developing countries, many lower income countries remain
vulnerable to food insecurity. Among lower income countries,
the nature of this problem differs both in magnitude
and in causes. In some countries, many of them in Sub-
Saharan Africa, a lack of resources (physical and financial)
is the root cause of the food security problem and unequal
food distribution exacerbates the situation. In other countries,
mostly in Latin America and Asia, food insecurity is
caused by the unequal distribution of food resulting from
wide disparities in income. The differences in the causes of
food insecurity influence the assessment of the amount of
food needed and strategies required to achieve food security.
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