ABSTRACT
Food insecurity, together with poverty, is one of the most serious problems facing the world’s population and a real cancer in developing countries. This chapter shows that the effectiveness of the System Dynamics (SD) modelling and simulation methodology for the analysis of the Food Insecurity problem. It argues that through the SD approach it is in fact possible to provide relevant organizations, such as Food Security indicators (FAO), with a valid instrument capable of supporting the development and testing of policies aimed at mitigating the problem. FAO has analyzed the problem by supporting a study for the creation of a qualitative model based on a causal-relationship diagram, that is capable of highlighting the endogenous and exogenous variables characterizing the Food Supply and Distribution Systems in developing countries. The chapter proposes Casual-relationship Diagram by adding some additional relevant aspects as: the importance of local food-sheds, and the importance of nutrition security.
