{"id":7895,"date":"2020-02-03T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"trade-wars-are-huge-threats-to-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/03\/trade-wars-are-huge-threats-to-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Wars Are Huge Threats To Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Mukhisa Kitui<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International trade has proven to be a critical mechanism for growth and development. It helps build stronger value chains, mitigate conflict and provides access to higher quality and quantities of goods and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has also provided consumers with access to a more diversified and nutritious food basket. However, for trade to improve food security to the greatest number of people across the globe, greater international cooperation is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 820 million people &#8211; equivalent to more than 10 percent of the world\u2019s population &#8211; were hungry and about 2 billion people experienced food insecurity in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This challenge exists in the context of a global population that is projected to grow from the current 7.7 billion to 8.5 billion in 2030 and rise to 9.7 billion in 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developing countries most affected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/ideas\/Trade-wars-are-huge-threats-to-food-security\/4259414-5441416-14b906s\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mukhisa Kitui International trade has proven to be a critical mechanism for growth and development. It helps build stronger value chains, mitigate conflict and provides access to higher quality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}