Food Security Issues: Concepts and the Role of Emerging Markets

Abstract

Purpose

The objective of this chapter is to provide an understanding of the meaning and measurements of food security.

Methodology/approach

This chapter consolidates and examines the evolution of the many definitions of food security since 1975 and describes the four dimensions of global food security. We examine the relationship between global food crisis and food security, and the significance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa as emerging markets.

Findings

Achieving food security will be determined by the world as a group helping developing countries in creating proper infrastructures, providing better income opportunities, and reducing financial constraints.

Practical implications

Governments, international agencies, private firms, and the world’s population need to be involved in food security from seed to plate.

Citation

Henneberry, S.R. and Diaz Carrasco, C. (2015), "Food Security Issues: Concepts and the Role of Emerging Markets", Food Security in an Uncertain World (Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1574-871520150000015005