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Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION AROUND THE WORLD 3 2.1 Food security indicators – latest updates and progress towards ending hunger and ensuring food security 3 2.2 Cost and affordability of a healthy diet 22 2.3 The state of nutrition: progress towards global nutrition targets 31 CHAPTER 3 A NEW DEFINITION OF FINANCING
FOOD SECURITY: FAO DEFINITION. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for and active and healthy life.
The concept of ‘food security’, introduced at the World Food Summit in 1996, refers to the physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food, at all times, to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, [social] and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.
This course introduces the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. It defines food security and its relationship to the concepts of vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The course also provides guidelines on how to interpret and use conceptual frameworks for analysing food security. 1.5 hour.
There is an urgent need to strengthen and consolidate conceptual and policy thinking around FSN to: prioritize the right to food. to widen understandings of the dimensions of food security. adopt a food systems analytical and policy framework. embrace critical policy shifts.
