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What's the biggest food security challenge near you?

I live in a big city and in a very rich country, we have no food security serious problems, as other countries of the world.
But we've got problems of course. Not because we have no resources, but because we have no education.
So that's the challenge in Argentina. Education.

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Comment by Starling on March 24, 2010 at 4:06am
Hey Nadia - give us some more here. What kinds of education will help with global food security? Can you find any examples of projects already underway? What would you set up in your local area if you had all the support and resources you need to start a project which would help with food security?
Comment by Nadia D. on March 24, 2010 at 4:53am
Well, the thing here is that the quality of education is too low in every way. We've got enough resources to be one of the richest countries of the world, we could feed our people and many countries around; and the quality of our food is really, really good.
Evoke says this about what food security is:

Food security exists
when all people, at all times,
have physical and economic access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
for a healthy and active life.
— World Food Summit 1996

But I can tell you, food security needs education to exist, not only physical and economic access. It is very sad, but we're an ignorant country, and we're self-centered people in general, we don't think globally, and that's why we have people starving in some provinces of the North, or homeless children laying in front of a giant shopping center.
Of course we're not all that way, but that is what you can usually see in Argentina, not too different to what you can see in other big, developed countries of the world.
Comment by Nadia D. on March 24, 2010 at 4:59am
The challenge would be then, to start thinking globally, to teach children to think globally to find a solution. We don't even need to be creative, we just need to find solidarity between people.
Comment by Starling on March 24, 2010 at 7:29am
Thanks Nadia - I've given you +1 creativity. I wonder if you have come across Dr Janice Cohn's book 'Raising courageous compassionate children in a violent world'? I think it's great for getting people thinking about how to talk to kids to raise them to act on social problems.
Comment by Nadia D. on March 30, 2010 at 5:29pm
Great!! Thank you for the comments, I'll try to read that book!! :)

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