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Climate change Food self-sufficiency
Ecological footprint:
the use of natural resources 3.3 Food self-sufficiency

Figure 10. Ecological footprint measures how much nature we have and how Food self-sufficiency is defined and measured in several different ways.
much nature we use. (Global footprint network 2018.) - (Galileo.it) However, the FAO (1999) definition is often used: ‘‘The concept of food

self-sufficiency is generally taken to mean the extent to which a country can
satisfy its food needs from its own domestic production”.
(Clapp 2016, 89)

Food self-sufficiency tells how well a country can produce the required
amount of food for its own population. Therefor basic definition—a country
manufacturing necessary food to cover its own needs.

Figure 11. Basic representation of food self-sufficiency (Clapp 2016, 89)

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