The World Food Summit in 1996 first defined food security as basic access to an adequate amount of food needed for an active and healthy life. Concern Worldwide U.S., a global charity advocacy NGO, describes on its website: “Food security is a basic human right. However, for hundreds of millions of people, this right is not being met.”
The significance of food security has been a continuously growing issue amid intensifying geopolitical uncertainties gripping the world, thus closely correlated with national security. However, prospects for global food security are becoming ever gloomier due chiefly to spawning regional wars and natural disasters amid increasingly serious catastrophic climate crises. The Russia-Ukraine war has largely been a testament to this, causing massive disruption in global supply channels of major resources, in particular grain and energy.
This has also intensified inflationary pressures and led to high interest rates across the globe. Warring nations are tempted to take advantage of the food problem, securing theirs first while preventing the opposite sides from acquiring it.
It is worrying that Korea ranked the lowest........