What are some advantages of securing food sources in small island nations and please further explain your answer?
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Answer:
Explanation:
Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) face a double burden of disease, with a high prevalence of household food insecurity and childhood micronutrient deficiencies, accompanied by a burgeoning increase in adult obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Methods
A systematic literature review was undertaken to assess whether increased availability of, and access to, fish improves a) household food security and b) individual nutritional status.
Results
A total of 29 studies were reviewed. Fourteen studies identified fish as the primary food source for Pacific Islanders and five studies reported fish/seafood as the primary source of dietary protein. Fish consumption varied by cultural sub-region and Pacific Island countries and territories. Fish consumption and nutritional status was addressed in nine studies, reporting moderate iodine deficiency in Vanuatu where only 30 % of participants consumed mostly fresh fish. Similarly, the degree to which Pacific Islanders depended on fishing for household income and livelihood varied between and within PICTs. For more economically developed countries, household income was derived increasingly from salaried work and dependency on fishing activities has been declining.
Conclusions
Fishing remains a major contributor to food security in PICTs, through subsistence production and income generation. However, there is a paucity of research aimed at assessing how maintaining and/or improving fish consumption benefits the diets and health of Pacific Islanders as they contend with the ongoing nutrition transition that is characterised by an increasing demand for packaged imported foods, such as canned meats, instant noodles, cereals, rice, and sugar-sweetened beverages, with subsequent decreased consumption of locally-produced plants and animals.
Some advantages of securing food sources in small Islands nations are explained below :
-With the higher prevalence double burden of disease are faced by Pacific Island countries and territories (PICT'S) due to household food insecurity, accompanied by burgeoning increase in the adult obesity, childhood micronutrient deficiencies, diabetes and heart diseases etc.
- According to systematic literature review methods are undertaken to assess whether increased availabilitiy of, and assess to fish improve are
a) household food security
b) improve nutritional status
- Out of total 29 studies reviewed fourteen studies states that the primary food source of the Pacific islanders is fish.
- Whereas fish/seafood is considered as the primary source of dietary protein that were reported by five studies.
- Moderate iodine deficiency is reported in Vanuatu where in only 30% of the participants consume mostly fresh fish Were the fish consumption and nutritional status address in nine studies.
- Hence, the conclusion was that fishing remains the major contributor of food security in PICT's through income generation and subsistence production.