TY - GEN
T1 - The importance of agriculture growth on food security in selected middle-income countries
T2 - 2nd International Recent Trends in Engineering, Advanced Computing and Technology Conference, RETREAT 2021
AU - Shafiai, Syahiru
AU - Rashid, Intan Maizura Abd
AU - Esquivias, Miguel Angel
AU - Elsiefy, Elsayed
AU - Jayadi, Akhmad
AU - Faisal, Syahril Iman
AU - Ishak, Nadia
AU - Rahman, Suzana Ab
AU - Yusof, Azman Mohd
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Author(s).
PY - 2023/6/12
Y1 - 2023/6/12
N2 - Countries with high levels of poverty and chronic malnutrition face constraints in developing the human capital necessary for sustainable growth. High poverty levels, inequality, and chronic malnutrition force governments to invest substantial short-term resources through social security networks and conditional cash transfers. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, a high malnutrition rate can contribute to a national loss of 4 to 5 per cent in the gross domestic product (GDP). Besides that, Food security carries significant benefits for human health and serves as the basis to achieve sustained economic growth as according to International Food Policy Research Institute. Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures and between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential. Furthermore, while high international food prices provide appropriate incentives for agricultural development, it would be misguided to expect that they will automatically result in an increase in agricultural output.
AB - Countries with high levels of poverty and chronic malnutrition face constraints in developing the human capital necessary for sustainable growth. High poverty levels, inequality, and chronic malnutrition force governments to invest substantial short-term resources through social security networks and conditional cash transfers. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, a high malnutrition rate can contribute to a national loss of 4 to 5 per cent in the gross domestic product (GDP). Besides that, Food security carries significant benefits for human health and serves as the basis to achieve sustained economic growth as according to International Food Policy Research Institute. Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures and between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential. Furthermore, while high international food prices provide appropriate incentives for agricultural development, it would be misguided to expect that they will automatically result in an increase in agricultural output.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166510087&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/5.0127903
DO - 10.1063/5.0127903
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85166510087
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - 2nd International Recent Trends in Engineering, Advanced Computing and Technology Conference, RETREAT 2021
A2 - Al-Saggoff, Syed Zulkarnain Syed Idrus
A2 - Wahab, Mohd Helmy Abd
A2 - Mustafa, Wan Azani Wan
A2 - Jamlos, Mohd Aminudin
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
Y2 - 1 December 2021 through 3 December 2021
ER -
