Meaning of Food Security


 
 
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Meaning of Food Security

Food security refers to availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times. Food security depends on the Public Distribution System (PDS) and government vigilance and to action, when this security is threatened.

Meaning of Food Security: Food security means availability of adequate supply of basic foodstuffs at all times. The 1995 World Food Summit declared, “Food security at the individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. The “poverty eradication is essential to improve access to food”. Food security has following dimensions

1.  Availability of Food It means food production within the country, food imports and the previous year’s stock stored in government granaries.

2.  Accessibility of Food It means food is within reach of every person.

3.  Affordability of Food It implies that an individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet one’s dietary needs.

The above dimensions conclude that food security is ensured in a country only if Enough food is available for all the persons, all persons have the capacity to buy food of acceptable quality and there is no barrier on access to food,

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Question : 1

Affordability of food implies that:

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Question : 2

Availability of Food means ________________-

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Question : 3

Food security is ensured in a country only if ____________________________

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