Why Do Some Countries Face Food Insecurity?

The key issue that rural communities in Cambodia face is food insecurity. Food security is having enough food that is safe (not contaminated or potentially harmful) to sustain a population's needs, in other words food security is having a reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food. Currently only 19% of the world's population has full food security while 32% of the world’s population face food insecurity.

The top three reasons why some countries like Cambodia don’t have a secure food supply is because of the lack of resources, rural productivity or low agricultural productivity and climate change. Having a lack of resources means not having good crops and good equipment for growing food, this is the cause of 42% of why some countries don’t have a sucure food supply. Agricultural productivity means not being able to grow much in the soil as a cause of lack of water, fertilizers and pesticides, or poor quality soil, this is the cause of 36% of why some countries face food insecurity. Climate change can mean that an area experiences changes in temperature or changes in rainfall patterns which affects food production, this is the cause of 34% of why some countries don’t have a sucure food supply.
The Ratanakiri province experiences flooding every year and soon after the flooding they experience drought, from this they are unable to easily produce healthy food therefore they are unable to receive profit from what they sell and are unable to nutritionally feed themselves. The people of Cambodia not only face food insecurity as a result to climate change, but they also face land insecurity as they have little to no defence against land grabbers and illegal