Food Security | zeroCO2 Glossary

Food Security

Food security means guaranteed access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. Erasing food insecurity is important to enable all people in the world to lead active and healthy lives.

Important notes on food security

Food insecurity is not due to a global lack of resources, but rather to their inaccessibility to hundreds of millions of people concentrated in certain regions of the world. In these regions, resources are often physically inaccessible or too expensive to afford;
Ensuring food security is not only about ensuring enough food for survival. A healthy and sustainable diet promotes the all-round health and well-being of individuals and must be compatible with people’s cultural identity;
By 2050, it is estimated that 70 per cent of the global population will live in cities. This increasing urbanisation is significantly changing agri-food systems and consequently their ability to ensure food security for all.

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It is estimated that between 691 and 783 million people have suffered from hunger in 2022, and the most up-to-date projections speak of 600 million people being chronically undernourished in 2030. A peek inside these large numbers reveals important differences between different regions of the world. The limited but significant progress made in Asia and Latin America is flanked by major deteriorations in the Caribbean, West Asia and all of Africa.
Mass urbanisation makes it complex to ensure a healthy and affordable diet for all because of the greater availability and convenience of ready-made foods, which are often high in fat, sugar or salt, compared to the scarcity of vegetables and fruit.
The climate crisis is also closely linked to food security. On the one hand, increasingly extreme weather conditions – rising temperatures, disastrous storms, heavy rainfall and prolonged periods of drought – destroy crops, generating insecurity. On the other hand, intensive and often monoculture-based agri-food models contribute to climate change by degrading the soil and reducing biodiversity.

zeroCO2 and food security

zeroCO2 develops projects that help create food security for the communities involved by increasing their self-sufficiency and decreasing their dependence on food purchases