3.2.3.2 Food GapFill

The global distribution of food consumption is highly  capital cropsevenunevendroughts. Typically, HICs such as the UK, have  insecurityover-consumptionhighlow levels of food consumption. Most of these countries are said to be in a state of food  insecurityhighlowsecurity. Whilst this is a positive for the economy, this may lead to issues such as  poorcapital cropsunder-consumptionover-consumption and cause adverse health effects such as heart disease and diabetes. Many LICs, such as Ethiopia, are said to be in a state of food  historical developmentsecurityinsecuritylarge. This can lead to  droughtsgoodfaminespoor which severely impacts health, causing  largeover-consumptionmalnutritionlow and death. Aside from consumption, food supply is also considered to be globally uneven. Countries with  historical developmentpoorgooddroughts climates for crops that can supply food all year round tend to be LICs and NEEs. These food items are produced to be sold for exports (usually to HICs) and so they are called  largecapital cropscash cropsmalnutrition. Some critics argue that LICs should be providing food to their own population rather than  importingexportinglargepoor food as cash crops. However, others argue that as these make up  securitylargelowinsecurity percentages of exports for some LICs, they are valuable to the countries’ GDP and  historical developmenteconomic developmentmalnutritioncapital crops.