Affiliation:
1. Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda
2. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Abstract
Food security concepts are extensively used in households as a measure of welfare, to conceptualise operational usefulness in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies. Most research is focused on improving food security and sustainability and the patterns still remain tenuous. This article explores food security indicators for sustainability by using system dynamics to understand the interconnectedness of the food security system. This is done by analysing quantitative and qualitative concepts of food security indicators. The simulation result shows dynamics of cropland decreasing with increasing population as they need food, energy and space to survive.
Reference64 articles.
1. Vulnerability
2. Complex Systems—A New Paradigm for the Integrative Study of Management, Physical, and Technological Systems
3. The Dynamics of Food Insecurity in Ethiopia
4. Ayenew, M. M., & Kopainsky, B. (2014, July). Food Insecurity in Ethiopia: Population, Food Production and Market. Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Delft, The Netherlands.
5. System dynamics as a useful technique for complex systems