A housing development lies on the edge of Cathedral City, a desert resort town in southern California, in April 2015. Damon Winter/New York Times/Redux
Eleven-year-old Chikuru carries water in a plastic jerrican, which weighs about forty pounds when full, to her home in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in September 2019. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
The water level at Camlidere Dam in the Turkish capital of Ankara is low due to seasonal drought and high water consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020. Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
A young boy washes a cooking pot in a pool of rainwater outside a slum where members of the Muhamasheen minority group live in Sanaa, Yemen, July 2020.
BANGLADESH: The country, dependent on production of chili peppers and other agricultural goods, is vulnerable to climate shocks. SOUTH SUDAN: Heavy floods, as seen here in Panthau, have displaced hundreds of thousands and worsened malnutrition. Rehman Asad/Barcroft Media/Getty Images and Albert Gonalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images
Food security is not just about consuming enough calories but also adequate nutrition. This means taking in macronutrients carbohydrates, fats, and proteins as well as micronutrients, which are vitamins and minerals. Such diets are far out of reach for people living on less than $1.90 per day at 2011 international prices, which aid officials define as the threshold for extreme poverty.
UAE better prepared to navigate pandemic, food and water security, minister says
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Country has managed plentiful supplies at critical time.
The UAE’s food supply chain is better prepared to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic than several other countries, thanks to its advanced preparations and national food security strategy plan, said the UAE’s Minister of State for Food and Water Security.
“For many years, we have been preparing ourselves and recognised before the pandemic that over-reliance on global food supply chain makes us vulnerable, that occur beyond our control. So we developed a nationwide plan,” Mariam Almheiri said during the opening address of the Gulfood 2021 Innovation Summit, which began at the Dubai World Trade Centre on Sunday.
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