What is food security to what extend kerala is a food secure state?
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Food security is a measure of the availability of food and individuals' accessibility to it, where accessibility includes affordability.
The final report of the 1996 World Food Summit states that food security "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".
Food security on the supply side mean total availability of food in the economy. Availability of food depends on internal production and imports from surplus regions and public distribution system. For an economy, it is necessary to ensure sustainable agricultural production and productivity to
meet the increasing demand for food. When the internal production is sufficient to meet domestic demand then the economy is considered self-sufficient in food production. Even then there may be food deficit regions
within a self-sufficient economy. In such a case, inter-regional transfer of food can be implemented. In India, Public Distribution System has been instrumental in distributing food to deficit regions.