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Hello, I noticed that the link in the Feed the Future page that is supposed to take you to the separate article for Feed the Future takes you to a page that has not been created. I think it was meant to direct you to the Feed the Future Initiative article instead. It's pretty minor, and I would not mind coming back soon and fixing it myself! Cheers! Cbadillo29 (talk) 22:00, 14 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
I am thinking of expanding the section on "Food Security in Mexico." There are references missing, and the current information is very limited. The section fails to address important issues such as food productivity, biodiversity, and poverty alleviation policies. To see the sources I may use, you can look at my user page! Jk956 (talk) 21:38, 19 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
Sources seem to use the word "availability" to describe the yes/no question "Is there something one could eat nearby?" When used in tandem with the different question of "accessibility", in my view the language creates a barrier to comprehension. Even though there may be mountain of food in a local warehouse, is it really 'available' if it is 'inaccessible'? QUESTION - do any sources use "existence of food" instead of "availability"? That word change would make the question of accessibility a lot more comprehensible at first reading. So we go from having a warehouse of "food that is available but is inaccessible" (which leaves topic beginners' heads spinning) to having a warehouse of "Food that exists but is inaccessible" (which any 12 year old reader will instantly grasp). NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:53, 7 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
Hi! I'm Anne. In one of my classes this semester, we will be working on creating a new article on Wikipedia or significantly contributing to an already existing one. For one of my proposed topics, I would like to create an entirely new article that focuses on food security/insecurity in Houston, TX. I would organize this article in a similar fashion to this parent article, but I would make it specific to the city of Houston. AMRara (talk) 13:24, 12 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
Most of food insecurity is from these areas. please expand and create a new article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Devpaawangmailcom (talk • contribs) 14:48, 28 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
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Hello! I'm Anne, and I would like to revise this article by adding one or two countries, probably South Africa and the Philippines, and how food security affects those populations. I would also like to expand more on the section "Effects of food security" and discuss the consequences of food insecurity that can occur on a scale that goes beyond an individual. AMRara (talk) 03:40, 31 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Careena.El-Khatib/Food_security/Bibliography?preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_bibliography — Preceding unsigned comment added by Careena.El-Khatib (talk • contribs) 22:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Rationale: By technical definitions, these terms seem to differ only by a matter of degree. In everyday language, "food insecurity" is often simply a euphemism for hunger. There is a lot of duplication and overlap in scope between the two articles already, and I think readers would be better served by simply having one article that explains both terms. (I don't have a strong opinion about what the title should be.) Some of the statistics in the Food security article are actually about hunger. The history of hunger is the history of food insecurity. The attempts to reduce food insecurity and challenges of doing so are the same for reducing hunger. The section on gender and statistics in Hunger cross-reference sections in the other article. -- Beland (talk) 17:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
Dear users,
I work for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As part of a broader UN-Wikipedia project and in line with FAO’s Open Access policy, I have been adding content, recent estimates, maps and graphs from some FAO publications to selected Wikipedia pages (full list available here).
When checking pages containing content related to food and agriculture, I noticed that the Food security page contains data from old editions (2003 and 2012) of FAO’s annual report on “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” (SOFI).
With the assistance of colleagues and under the guidance of the UK Wikimedia Programme Coordinator, I therefore aim to update the page with more recent estimates from the 2020 edition of the same report (the OTRS permission can be found here), as most of the content included in the page is now outdated. We also aim to include new graphs and to make some changes to the text by including additional relevant information and by rephrasing some pieces of content.
Shortage of food 106.78.87.198 (talk) 03:08, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Impacts of food security 41.115.97.41 (talk) 17:05, 6 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The article is too long (98 kB (15805 words) "readable prose size"). I am now going to look for ways of culling / condensing it. Any suggestions by page watchers? EMsmile (talk) 10:25, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
I've removed the "further reading" list as I don't think it adds any value nowadays and would have to be curated continuously:
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Someone mentioned that the article is too US centric and I agree, the only country well-elaborated on is the USA (though majority of studies do tend to take place there I’ve found). I added Yemen, Uganda, Canada, South Africa, and Singapore. I also added a section on alternative insect diets with a focus on non western cultures that consume insects. We should work to add more countries, there’s only a few there. —Mbrookemac (talk) 01:15, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply