Accumulating global food stocks

In 1975, the International Emergency Food Reserve (IEFR) was established and placed at the disposal of the World Food Programme (WFP) as an emergency reserve to strengthen the capacity of WPF to deal with crisis situations in developing countries. It is the major international source of food for initial emergency interventions. The target of the IEFR is 500,000 tonnes of cereals, but this has been regularly surpassed. WFP's effectiveness in responding to the initial phases of emergencies has been based largely on its ability to borrow from WFP food stocks already in-country for development projects, or from other stocks. The ratio of global cereal stocks at the end of the 1993/94 season to anticipated utilization in 1994/95 is expected to remain at 17 to 18%. This is the minimum set by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for maintaining world food security. A substantial build-up of global cereal stocks was achieved in the 1992/93 period.

1. Organizing world food resources
2. Improving mechanisms for securing sufficient food supplies
3. Establishing policy to ensure global food security

1. Conserving fish stocks

1. Tackling food deficiencies caused by production shortfalls
2. Securing food supplies
3. Providing food aid
4. Providing food
5. Providing dietary protein supply
6. Preparing for food emergencies
7. Establishing standby humanitarian food service
8. Balancing world food economy

1. Using food additives
2. Revealing national basic food stocks
3. Preventing stored foods spoilage
4. Preserving perishable food stuffs
5. Preserving harvested foods
6. Monitoring food security
7. Increasing global food production
8. Globalizing food sourcing
9. Exploiting global biological resources for new foods
10. Creating drought preparedness programmes stressing food security

1. Maintaining secrecy of national basic food stocks

1. Unpreparedness for food emergencies
2. Seasonal fluctuations in food production
3. Overdependence on few crop species
4. Nutritional deficiencies
5. Mismanagement of food resources
6. Maldistribution of food
7. Lack of a world food security system
8. Instability of food prices
9. Inappropriate food aid
10. Inadequate mechanisms for securing sufficient food supplies
11. Inadequate food storage facilities
12. Imbalance in world food economy
13. Food interdependence
14. Food insecurity
15. Food grain spoilage
16. Famine
17. Exploitation of dependence on food aid
18. Disruption of food supply due to military activities
19. Denial of right to sufficient food
20. Decline in food production
21. Corruption and mismanagement of foreign aid

1. Nonglobalized