Question

difference between factors and dimensions of food insecurity

Answer 1

Food security exists when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The four pillars of food security are: food availability, access to food, utilization and stability. The nutritional dimension is integral to the concept of food security.The nutritional aspect of food and nutrition security is achieved when secure access to food is coupled with a sanitary environment, adequate health services, and knowledgeable care to ensure a healthy and active life (free from malnutrition) for all household members.The graph above displays the complex aspects and interplay of food and nutrition security on different levels. Different factors and sectors on the global/national level (such as the extent of agricultural production, existing infrastructure, international policies and gender issues) play a crucial role and influence the level of food availability and access to food, care, and health services, environmental and hygienic conditions on the sub-national level, which directly affects communities and households. Education plays a crucial role to improve and change the situation on the sub-national level. Improved food availability and access to food, along with aspects of care, determine the individual’s food intake (food use); whereas care and questions of health and hygiene influence the individual’s health status (food utilisation). Food intake and health status are closely related to each other and both determine the level and overall goal of food and nutrition security..Four elements build the framework of food and nutrition security: availability, access, use and utilization, and stability. The graph below illustrates the three dimensions describing the food flow from availability and access to use and utilization as well as the aspect of sustainability. These aspects are listed in the bottom rectangle in the graph below, representing the temporal determinant, as well as aspects of an enabling environment or frame conditions of Food and Nutrition Security. Stability fundamentally affects all other elements from the basis.

Answer 2

Dimensions of food insecurity our availability of food accessibility of food and affordability of food