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important points of food security

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Food Security: What is the Importance of Food Security?Article shared by 

Read this article to learn about the importance of food security for a country!

Food security refers to the availability of food and one’s access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades.

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Food availability, food utilization, and food access are the principle variables that define household food security and should guide interventions:

i. Food Availability:

Sufficient quantities of appropriate, necessary types of food from domestic production, commercial imports, or donors, are consistently available to individuals, are in reasonable proximity to them, or are within their reach.

ii. Food Access:

Individuals have adequate incomes or other resources to purchase a appropriate food needed to maintain consumption of an adequate diet and nutritional level.

iii. Food Utilization:

Food is properly used and many suitable techniques are employed for storage. At the global level, Hunger results from political and economic inequality, environmental degradation, unjust trade policies, inappropriate technology, and other factors depending on local context. At the local level, the food inequality results by the lack of nutritional education, poor quality of food, and from inadequate quantities of the rights kinds of food.

Answer 2

Hi Friend...

1. Food security refers to the availability of food and one’s access to it.

2.A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation.

3. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades.

4.The poor and rural are most likely to be hungry in any given country and situation.

5. Production, income, and the high price of food are the variables that contribute to hunger in rural areas.....

6.Hunger and malnutrition lead to poverty, which leads to:

(i) Unsustainable use of natural resources ....

(ii) Reduced capacity to access markets and resources ......

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