食品安全问题(On the Food Security) Directions: Directions: You are supposed to finish a composition with 120 words or so within 30 minutes.The outline is as follows: 1) 目前食品安全问题很多; 2) 出现这么多的原因; 3) 解决的办法
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Food Security
The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing “when all people at all times have acce to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”.Commonly, the concept of food security is defined as including both physical and economic acce to food that meets people\'s dietary needs as well as their food preferences.In many countries, health problems related to dietary exce are an ever increasing threat, In fact, malnutrion and foodborne diarrhea are become double burden.
Food security is built on three pillars:
Food availability: sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis.
Food acce: having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.
Food use: appropriate use based on knowledge of basic nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation.Food security is a complex sustainable development iue, linked to health through malnutrition, but also to sustainable economic development, environment, and trade.There is a great deal of debate around food security with some arguing that:
There is enough food in the world to feed everyone adequately; the problem is distribution.Future food needs canbe met by current levels of production.National food security is paramountor may notand food, agricultural and rural development policies - offset the diverse (and poibly negative) impacts of international policies, such as those relating to international trade?
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How can the overall economic gains from trade benefit those who are most likely to be suffering from food insecurity? Do gains “trickle down” to enhance economic acce to food for the poor?
How can food and agricultural production and trade be restrained from the over-exploitation of natural resources that may jeopardize domestic food security in the long term? How to ensure that imported food products are of acceptable quality and safe to eat?
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The world grain market has been witneing speculative fluctuations these days.
Ruia\'s decision to extend its ban on wheat exports from end of this year to virtually the end of 2011 to tide over the severe crop lo and the reported panic hoarding of staple foods is causing global food prices to rise further.
There\'s more bad news: farm outputs in other countries acro Europe and Asia (and in Australia) are declining.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has called a special meeting in Rome later this month to discu how the global food supply problem should be addreed.
Given the global situation, the Chinese government had to act fast.That is precisely what the State Council, or China\'s Cabinet, has done.Earlier this week, the State Council vowed to strengthen regulations to control food and grocery prices.This is a welcome move to help consumers, especially during the festival season.
In all likelihood, the government plans to take further action, if needed, at least till the beginning of next year.Such actions could include financial commitment.
Besides, lawmakers are expected to urge the government at their national seion in March to intensify its efforts further.
Earlier this year, the government took the very important decision to import more grains.From January to July, the overall trade in farm products showed a deficit bigger than the previous year\'s.Much of this, however, should be seen as a precautionary move to capitalize on generally low food prices rather than an emergency measure to meet any shortage in the domestic market.
China, as a matter of policy, has basically relied on its own resources for staple food supplies.The country\'s agricultural specialists usually pride themselves for being able to feed more than 20 percent of the world\'s population despite having le than 10 percent of its arable land.To be precise, the country meets about 95 percent of its food demand from domestic sources.
China cannot shirk its responsibility simply because there is no alternative.And the responsibility to stabilize the domestic and global markets has increased manifold because of climate change and freaky weather.
According to forecasts, this year\'s global grain output is likely to fall by more than 5 percent from last year\'s 681 million tons to 646 million tons.
In contrast, China\'s summer crop this year, which mainly comprises wheat and makes up roughly one-fourth of its total yearly farm output, was 123.1 million tons, slightly le than last year\'s 123.5 million tons.But National Development and Reform Commiion officials say that wheat production this year was actually 1 million tons more than last year.
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As for the autumn crop, specialists have said corn production could increase by 4 million tons from last year\'s record output to 168 million tons this year.
This year\'s food security may be ensured, but it would take much greater efforts to ensure food security in the coming years.The national grain reserve system has to be strengthened and, hopefully, expanded to cover some non-staple but financially important products.
New investments have to be made to overcome the devastation that floods in the last two months have caused.The waters have not only washed away crops, but also destroyed farm waterworks acro extensive areas.
China cannot yet afford to relax in its efforts to ensure its food security
范文
Over the past couple of years, several cases of the food scandal have been disclosed on various media.The problem of food security has become a hot button acro society.The prevalence of food insecurity has greatly impacted public health, which the government could not afford to ignore, according to the online edition of the People Daily.
There are a couple of driving forces, I would argue, behind this undesirable tide.First, in the course of the rapid economic evolution, we ignore moral education, giving rise to the rising rate of the problem.More importantly, the lack of adequate regulation and punishment on those illegal producers enforces the trend.
As Confucius instructed, it is better late than never.Prompt and strict measures should be taken to turn back this evil trend.The government should launch a maive moral campaign to educate all citizens and draw up tougher laws to crack down on those irresponsible corporations and prohibit them from entering the food industry again.I am firmly convinced that through our combined efforts we are bound to enjoy more risk-free foods in the days ahead.
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