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The Challenges to Food Security in Asia: Solutions for the Future?



In this globalized era of twenty first century, free trade, expanding private ownership and squeezing government control from the ownership of business, bring a significant economic prosperity in the developed world. On the other hand, widespread poverty, war and conflicts, food insecurity and environmental degradation cause severe human suffering all over the developing world and these destabilize the world’s economy and ecosystems. In present world, where we have more than 6 billion of population, out of them 2.5 billion live on less than 2 dollar in a day, where 30 percent of total world population lives in absolute poverty (Andersen and Lorch, 1998); food security issue naturally becomes as a hot topic.

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